Mine are originals also. I never make a duplicate of the same. I start out with the pictures or panels and design around them.
It was really fun designing this one and I hope to enter it in a show before I take it up to Crazy Horse.
I'm working on another with buffalo now, decided the pattern was to busy so have to split up the fill in with black so it looks better. It's not talking to me like the other one did, lol.