This is a shy and sweet little girl that I got to know. Most of the time she giggled and smiled, and whispered to her firends. She loved to watch me draw, and sat to learn how to do her own work next to me. She particulary loved flowers. She became quite good at drawing roses. I did her portrait using refrence phots, she's much too shy to stand me sketching her. I used my wacom tablet & pen and used both Painter Classic and IX to complete this portriat. I used lots of layers of airbrush - to paint the main colors first, layering the mulit-tones of skin, and blended these to get rid of brush marks, adding in highlights and details. It's not airbrushed as in retouched photos, it's airbrush as in spraying paint. I often to layers of pastels, even watercolor, to get the soft look, by mixing medias & blending with water to get the smoother look.