i really hesitate to say this but looking at the two, the original had much better anatomy/structure x:
i don't have this map so i have no nostalgia for the design either way -- i like the design shown here but the wings, posture, and face angle are all really rough in this one, as nice as the coloring is. i'm sorry! the bird wings on mara are always a bit...stylized, to be fair, and i can see that maybe feathers sticking out randomly is meant to be ugly since i hear the character is meant to be ugly? the belt also appears to only be on the lower half of the body, for some reason.
the linework and coloring are lovely ^^ do the artists flip their sketches as they work? it helps a lot with catching perspective issues!
sig art by tomo
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