I think the color selection on the early skin was better than on this one, but there's no denying the improvement of moving from 256x256 to 1024x1024 texture resolutions!!!!

I'm not a fan of the skins that look washed out with no contrast/definition. It just looks like a opacity filter was dumped on top of what otherwise might look like a good skin. On the other hand, that's good incentive to make my OWN skin for it, eh?