Gaia's crappy new project!

[NICKtendo DS]

If you are going to redesign your character, I suggest you do it by hand. Trying to design it straight in pixel art might end up in a mess.
Drawing concept art by hand is faster and more efficient, because it's easier to draw the basic shapes and later add details. Try that straight in pixelart and you'll end up with a reference that is harder to read, thus making it really hard to create (pixel)art of higher resolution and has consumed more time than needed, in which you could have made a couple of sketches.
I start to believe that is one of the reasons you ended up redoing the tFR sprite couple of times over.

If you have drawn concept art by hand, then disregard what I said. However, If you have, you haven't posted them here, which you probably should.

P.S. The art doesn't have to be 'amazing'. The purpose of concept art is to show design, not artistic skill.