avatars from gaia online

I've been drawing my avatar from gaia online this week, and I've come to an impasse. See I was using Macromedia Fireworks to computer edit my hand drawn images, and that was working wonderfully, but now my free trial is up and I don't have $300 for the program... I don't even have $100 for the one I saw on eBay. I so want to cry.
Here is my avatar:


This is a friends avatar.