I'm sure you can't be that bad sOph, really I'm not that good, I'm actually much better at traditional art (because it's so much easier) but I'm able to transfer over a decent amount of that over because of my TABLET! *hugs tablet*
Oh, and if you're wondering (which I'm sure you're not) I can tell you where I got most of the inspiration for her design from. well most of it came from my character (Lizzie)
http://fl00fy.deviantart.com/art/Image-Dump-81099412 (The top two) (though a lot of her outfit is from other places to begin with.) And I wear shirts like that, with them cropped sleeves, all the time (I'm wearing one now ^_^) And with the ZOMG shirts and stuff, well ... that's obvious. Her hair is Misa's hair from Death Note, but black, and longer, and I can't draw hair on the ground, so that's why it's that length. Her boots are Leela's from Futurama in the episode 'Anthology of Interest' "Because you're so unimpulsive" "Hello! New Boots!". (Guess what I was doing when I was drawing her.) And then the squiggle under her eye is from my friend's character that she stopped drawing ages ago. The stockings came from Yomi's from Azumanga Daioh. And everything else had no real inspiration. Mostly "because I needed some more colour there"
My general idea with her was to make someone who was pleasing for the male eye, but was embarrassing for me as a female to have designed. (basically I didn't want to make her a slut.) The 2nd one I'm happy with. And, judging my Naga's response, I might have done the first.
Annnnd another thing!:- There's a background on that, it just so happens to be the background of the forum colour, because that's where I got my colours from. The forum.