Still slowly working toward incorporating this character (now officially named 'Kallista') into my group, this was a sketch that I did in July 2012, possibly at Anthrocon. As part of an effort to catch up on and process con sketches that I haven't gotten around to posting, I inked and colored this scan, the pencils of which had become rather extensively smudged. There are a few pose errors that I noticed about halfway through the process, but I couldn't do the kind of extensive fixes I usually do because ths time around I experimented with MyPaint, another of those SAI work-alikes that doesn't quite do all the things you can do with SAI. (to the best of my knowledge). And this after I re-installed Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 2011 on my primary computer...and still haven't used it. Me and these freeware apps I keep experimenting with--I think this is the third one so far.

The chief limitation I discovered with these digital-paint programs is little or no capacity to adjust colors/contrast/brightness, or cutting out sections of an image and transforming/flipping/rotating/repositioning/manipulating them. Since they aren't designed with photos in mind, you really need to know how to get the colors you want, and I still kind-of suck at color, at least in terms of digi-painting semi-realistic colors. For most of this pic instead of fighting with MyPaint's color picker, I copied the RGB codes sampled from another pic of this character using my standby, Micrografx Picture Publisher, because MyPaint cannot open two images in seperate windows (as far as I know)

So far as this pic goes, Kallista has evolved a little more since I drew this, and the only major re-draw I did was on her sneakers, updating them to a pair of Asics Hyper Rocketgirl 4 (from the pink-trimmed HRG3). These will probably be the only constant feature on this character, owing to her origins in a track-and-field-themed art trade years ago. The next image of her you'll see is one I drew at What The Fur.

Pencil on bristol, inked and colored in MyPaint (text and logo added with Micrografx Picture Publisher) Six layers, full-size OpenRaster file at 11MB.