It is definitely going very well with the techniques you're trying out in SAI! This is again looking absolutely amazing!

Thank you! :) I do believe I've decided I'm going to buy Sai - though it lacks tools I like (including a way to add text - that up there is hand-written), it does have its merits, and it's growing on me. :)

You're very welcome! Yes, there are indeed some tools rather lacking from SAI, like you say the text type tool, and things like the smudge tool and special-shaped brushes, but it's definitely a very good program, and it has a lot of upsides in the ways several of the tools behave, the effects you can get with them and such, and like the stabilizer it has and everything, so it's definitely very much worth the investment, which as another plus, is really not all that much for such a good digital painting program =^_^= And of course, you can always still fall back upon Photoshop or similar programs to add fonts and the like; I have seen a lot of artists using both SAI and Photoshop to combine effects (which shows another upside of SAI; the ability to save files as .psd files so you can open and edit them in Photoshop).

Awesome

That looks like the one I drew for her.. -blinks- I mean, not /exactly/ but kind of. -head tilt-

I haven't seen the one you've done for her. o.o