I love drawing OCs, My OC took about 6 years to design XD This is her in all her glorious-ness (A friend of mine drew this for me, I didn't do it XD)
Shes in that outfit because I can't design clothes for sh*t >_>. I've been drawing since I can remember lol, but I started drawing seriously about 2 years ago, I went out and bought tons of "how to draw manga" books and worked off those. They're pretty handy!
Also, the pixelization is because I resized a few of these images for the forums because they're huge XD, on my deviantart they're not as pixelated. I just recently discovered the awesomeness of saving things as a png *.* I'll never go back to jpg again XD.
I've tried changing the color of the lines, it sometimes works out, but black lines are my friend. In the first pic the lines are actually brown and in the 5th the lines are colored ^^. Thank you for the advice though! I'll try to work with colored lines more often ^^.