Portrait 12/10

This is a portrait of my daughter which was created in Illustrator. It is not what would be considered the classic Illustrator style, where the various tones are broken down into more obvious shapes. I worked, instead, with the gradient mesh tool, to create a more fluid, realistic image. This method was extremely time consuming, and somewhat tedious at times, but I was satisfied with the results. Unfortunately I spent so much time on the subject that I had very little time or energy left for the background, and I had a deadline. So the background is very stiff in comparison.