So, after drawing the first DTIYS, I decided, “What the hell? The original artist said it was OK to put Maple in different clothes, and so I did. I PUT THEM IN ALL THE CLOTHES!”
In all seriousness, I decided to have a bit of fun and designed a beautiful outfit for Maple to wear…apparently in sub-zero temperature in powdery snow. Actually, my thought was to take Maple’s color scheme and translate it over into an outfit I might design. And while I had fun, Maple’s another story. They look like they’re not so sure of all of this. Maybe if I give them pancakes afterwards, all will be forgiven.
(In reality, I modeled this piece after Maple’s leftmost pose in the second slide of the Instagram post).
And now, I am going to bed, because I was up until at least 4am yesterday, and 3am today working on both images. I hope that I didn’t go overboard with the liberties that I took with this characters’ clothes.