Day 2

I end up drawing a lot of stuff like this simply because I don't know what else to draw sometimes. I don't want to get stuck in a pattern where all I draw is attractive young ladies doing nothing but being attractive. But it's easy so when I'm at a loss it's what I end up doing, I suppose. Again this was drawn in SAI and colored in Photoshop.

I absolutely adore using SAI for my linework. The way I do my lineart is actually a little bit tedious, and a lot of people ask me why I bother. Most artists I know draw an undersketch and then make a new layer, where they either draw cleaner lines on top of or use a line or bezier tool to do so. While I do that occasionally, I really prefer to sketch out a picture and then erase and redraw on that layer until the sketch is cleaned up. In SAI I can do that and the whole process just seems to go faster because the program is so much smoother. Or at least it seems so to me.

The character here is Savoy. She's also for the project I mentioned in my previous post, though her part is much smaller. It's really a shame that she doesn't get much time in the story, because I ended up really liking her as a character. She started as a stock character without much depth to her. I just needed someone who was fundamentally the opposite of Natalie to act as a sort of antagonist without being a villain. But she ended up growing so much in my character creation process that I got really angry at myself for putting her in a role where I couldn't really do much more with her. What I'd really like to do is give her a completely separate side project and explore her history and backstory so I at least get a chance to play around with her a bit more.