Hey, I never said i'm going to make sprites instead of shijing, I meant aswell as shijing.. He is great at editing sprites but as bryggz said I have experience making things from scratch, which may help when you want something totally different. Also, it won't be this pack i'm joining, maybe some of the next ones (if Bryggz lets me ^_^).
The only thing I can see that you can improve on in the model is the eyes on the skin and make the pants poofier (erm, if you know what I mean). The eyes look a little narrow, and the pants look flat.. apart from that it is great.