Okay people. There’s good news and there’s bad news.
The bad news is that I accidentally saved over some of my master files (with layers and stuff so that I could move things around) with temporary files (no layers so I could test them in game). This badly affected my motivation and I haven’t done much work on these in the last few weeks.
The good news is that it doesn’t appear to have done too much damage. I should be able to resume working on this reskin soon. Just need to get my spirits up again. A few days ago I tried a quick shortcut (transplanting the head and hair from the Intimidate sprite to the Defence sprite) to see if I could cut a few corners and it seemed to work out well.