Art Then And Now

I only have like 4 over due requests, and the old thread I was using for all my art posts is most likely ded.
So what do I do?
Make something completely unrelated of course! That's the TFF Difference™!
While I was slapped in the face with lack of motivation to do anything else, I found my older drawing of Polaris that at the time I was so proud of- and realized it really needed redoing. I did not know how to draw wings it seems. Or shading past crosshatching, while yes I still like hatching and crosshatching, it seems I didn't know how to do it correctly.
So, here's a revised drawing that I was proud of that the time, redone so that I'm truely... semi-okay with it.
OLD DRAWING:

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NEW DRAWING (Brightened For Better Smoothness):

Fixed: Wings, Shading, Mouth, Some parts of the lineart, and updated it with name in Orrimian Dialect.
"TFF wtf does that last bit mean?"
Ssshhhh, I'll probably share it when it's better refined.
For now I should be working on [Secret Project]... but seeing as I've told myself that for the last few weeks, I'm most likely just gonna stare at the wall all day. Again.

Edit: Holy hell you guys just blew up my alerts with 5 likes in less than 2 minutes. You must have been insane ​

 

Is it bad that I can barely tell the difference?

 

No idea, but you are right that the 2 images are almost the exact same.

 

Don't think so.

Save for the mouth.

 

Psst, below the 2nd picture I have a list of things I changed.
I redrew the entire right wing, I'm kinda surprised you missed that ahahaha.
It's alright you didn't at 1st see it, but still give me a little credit for changing something, this wasn't easy to do because a lot of shading really stressed me out to do. I'm always afraid I'd mess up and never be able to fix it, ya'kno.

 

Yes... Now I do notice it.