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Question

アニメについての感謝イラストを描いたんだけど、暗に「サイタマのイメージが違う」と不満言ってるみたいに取られたら嫌だなと思ってボツにした奴。 考え過ぎかな。 でも描き直します。 　

I was reading this tweet and did not understand the bold part.
My translation would be:

Regarding the illustration gift for the anime I drew them but, as if complaining implicitly that "the image of Saitama is different" if someone received they would turn it down.
Maybe I am thinking too much.
Anyway let's draw it back

Edit:
My new translation would be:

Regarding the illustration gifts for the anime I drew them but, implicit they looked liked they were complaining that "Saitama's image is different" so if I got one I would not be very happy.
Thinking this I rejected those one.
Maybe I am thinking too much but I'll redraw them.

Answer 1

You seem to have gotten some words wrong.

• ボツにする: to give up on, to throw away in this context, because he didn't even show it to someone before
• 奴【やつ】: (slangy) the thing, that of.
  • ボツにした奴 in this context refers to not "the person who turned down my illustration" but "the illustration I gave up on".
• 取る: to interpret, to understand as, to take (as in "take it seriously"). See definition 10 here.
• ～したら嫌だ: to hate it if ～, to feel bad about ～

『暗に「サイタマのイメージが違う」と不満言ってるみたいに取られたら嫌だな』と思って、ボツにした奴

Literally: The thing I threw away, thinking "I hate it if the illustration were interpreted as if I were implicitly complaining 'Saitama's image is different/wrong' ".

Although he, the author of the manga version, probably drew this illustration purely as a joke, it turned out that the the illustration somehow looked like a complaint against the anime staff. So he gave up directly presenting it to the anime staff. Instead, he posted it as a tweet.