Took me a while to get the cleanup work done for this. I mostly felt like drawing something cute and a little playful instead of messy and indulgent, if that makes sense. And I just really enjoy working with these characters.
Alright, I said there was kind of a fun backstory behind this character. I'm gonna keep it short and focused, so this doesn't go on forever. This is Amanda. She's the first original character I did any design work for in a formal writing context. She's changed a lot since then, but here's roughly where she is now: Being myself, I had, while doing re-writes a while back, improvised a line of dialogue while outlining a scene for her involving her having to awkwardly tuck an erection into her waistband, and decided to run with that in the book and actually implement that into her character. That side of her took off from there. Amanda has made the leap between two VASTLY disparate professions, which has kind of defined the themes of the book for me. See, she currently has a degree in robotics engineering and programming, and is working on a project to build a human level A.I., having come from her previous career as a porn actress. The fact that her previous...
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