This is Giannia,my grandaughter, who is growing so fast. She loves to come visit, and this is how she gives me a kiss. I love when babies are learning, so fun and so cute. She has her mother Theresa's beauty (see her under women portraits and them together in Beautiful expressions of love). For her, I do much anything, even share her pink eye infection this past week. It was worth it! Painted with a wacom tablet and stylus pen, using Painter IX software. I used layers of airbrush the most with different brush settings and softness. I used water brush tools, such as dotting and dragging the grainy round brush to blend the background colors, and other water and blending tools for the rest. The hair is blended stands that I built up in layers of single strands over wider brush swipes, then softly blended then together, leaving some individual areas not as blended strands. I'm getting better with eyes and lashes, as before had trouble with small detail areas. The Painter IX software is able to do little areas and tiny brushes I could not with the older version of Painter Classic that I used in many of my first digital paintings. I also learned to use a larger canvas area and resolution. Some of my first were done as low as a 72 dpi, as I didn't know any different. I know not to now, if I want better prints. Hope you like this one. It took a while, had to finish it with one eye not so infected. I'm on the mend now, thank goodness.