Judging by chi.miru's deviantART, there's great sketching and defined lines going on. I guess this is your first attempt at digital art? Learning to make clean lines digitally is a pain in the butt, I went through that phase twice. Once with the mouse, (Vectoring everything is slow as balls.) then with the tablet. The tablet was easy to pick up on, though learning just how bad GIMP's brush engine is threw me for a loop at first.
Aaaaand so I'm contributing to the thread, here's a wonky two-hour sketch I did from a sugar high, and a bad idea. I present to you, Lilacu:
(Look for the hidden reference.)
Also, MotorRoach, based on your critiques of my previous posts, it finally helped me build up the nerve to drop those crappy triangles/kites I used to draw characters with. Three weeks of learning a way later, this is how far I've gotten along.
From when I was still using triangles, but starting to building body bases on top of them:
Totally ditched triangles. Now I'm only using only skeletons, painted body base silhouettes, and some directional lines:
I'm redrawing one of her legs and arms, although is this a step in the right direction for better anatomy? Because I'm finding more challenging poses less difficult to pull off now, or requiring less partial redraws.