"What would you trade the pain for? I'm not sure"
I've had a sudden urge to recreate (or better to say, re-imagine) an old idea from almost three years ago, now that I had more tools in my pipeline and more experience under my belt. I still have a lot to learn, but it's nice to see that the progress is, in fact, here, and that the resulting illustration is pretty close to what I've had in my mind.