Haha thank you. Experimenting is good, trying iconic styles definitely helped back when I was figuring out how to color. Its been a long time but Illustrator was more useful when drawing objects instead of people.
I'd love it if you'd join the collab but if you don't want to or have time I completely understand (ᵕ—ᴗ—)
It's thanks to you I started drawing again so right back at ya, great work CB