Pft, that opening line cracked me up! Be warned, I write a lot of lengthy detailed replies, so let me know if I should tone it down in that aspect.Wow, that's really surprising actually? After struggling to create vector-like art via hand tracing and realizing it just isn't working like I want it, I looked seriously into real vector art both because I thought it was a faster way to create beautiful art that also looked professional and good (I was interested in it for creating comics, since hand-drawing takes a long time) and also because I wanted to expand what I could do (I want to be a graphic designer for a career, so at some point I figured I'll need to learn.) When I started my research, I was blown away by how difficult it is. I never attempted making one, but I spent hours looking through the techniques people have posted on how to get the line width, the line tapers, and the gradients JUST SO. That was only a handful of available tutorials, and just for creating ponies- I felt way out of my league thinking about the whole world of vector creation. After that I look at vector art with a whole new appreciation.And yeah personally, I'm not against explicit imagery but I definitely prefer softer stuff, or teasers is pretty great! The characters I like to work with also tend to be younger though, so yknow. Recently I've started liking "coming of age" narratives, and I've always loved cartoon styles as a whole- censorship and all. I think 'adult' things can distract from the narratives trying to be told, which just feels cheap to me. If your story doesn't stand on it's own without the shock factor of adult humor, it wasn't a good story to begin with. But occasional artworks are fun at times!That's pretty amazing, and funny how we automatically move toward technology even for art now a'days. I took up digital art for the first time I believe around 2015? Before that it was all sketchbooks. The difference in what I'm capable of doing feels astronomical!But yeah, currently I use FireAlpaca. However keep in mind this is a little-known program and there have been many more free programs that have been recommended. I only started using FireAlpaca because a friend I knew used it, and I wasn't aware of other options at the time. I've never used any other free programs so I can't give you good recommendations, but based off of what I've heard, I'd suggest using something else. I don't remember what the others are off the top of my head, but googling free art programs and looking at various reviews (a lot of people have written small novellas online about which art programs, both free or costly, are best.) Personally if you want to introduce her to art, I'd look for an art program that is approachable. FireAlpaca is approachable, and what's more it has a really nice color fill-in tool and automatically corrects your lines if you turn those features on, plus it does fantastic lineart. So FireAlpaca is an option, but I don't have enough knowledge about other options to give you good advice on that front. If you do get FireAlpaca, I'd be happy to show you some tricks I've learned, but I don't claim to be an expert at it. I asked a friend just now if she had any ideas, and she listed Krita ( krita.org/en/ ) or MediBang ( medibangpaint.com/en/pc/ ) As some other options you can look into. Of those two, I've heard a lot about MediBang, but if I recall correctly it also depends a lot on what your style is. Some programs are fantastic for paintings, others are more lineart-friendly.Oh, and thanks for showing interest! I do, but I'm a little hesitant showing those (which is why I created a new account.) How do I put this...they're 100% fanworks from other cartoon fandoms, it's a progression of my time learning digital art which means most of them are badly done, and I've written pretty extensively in them about things I no longer agree with but don't feel particularly keen to delete. So I'm more than a little sheepish about it, plus this might be a little surprising but I've always been pretty bashful about my art and keep most of it to myself. I'd like to keep my work for MLP separate from anything I've done in the past. But over time, I might upload non-MLP works to this account as I create them.