Well, whenever I design something more orient, I try to go for a more Chinese design, or just a conglomerate of asian styles. I blame Guild Wars Factions for this.
Not sure where you're getting the Chinese vibe from Laura though, but thanks, and I'm glad you like them. When it comes to fanart I prefer doing alternate costumes rather than just straight up pictures of them anyway, outside of humorous pictures.
Hopefully I can get that OC done sometime, but I'm just one of those people that can only get shit done in one sitting. Add that to plenty of other stuff I still want to work on and it might be a while. At least I'm on break from class for a couple of weeks.