Hm, interesting.. In what way?
It's hard to explain though. This is what I thought I would do with the next avatar:
- use the current avatar's lineart as a base in order to keep it identical design-wise
- improved color set
- a significantly thinner white outline
- simpler shading (for the most part)
- maybe a different background + more I can't think of right now.
I'll have to toy around with the hue / saturation and brightness / contrast settings to get the right shades of colors I want. The most difficult thing to pull off would be the angle the character is facing.
If it doesn't work out, I'll do a new version of the current one using the "upgraded" style.