Verene, thanks for the tutorials! That tutorial I mentioned early talks about thinking of the curls in a 3D way so I'm going to do that last after the armor so I can have them interact with each other. On a side not, I saw Tangled yesterday, and so many times during the movie, I was like 'I wish I could draw that hair!' Oh, another thing, I keep coloring her hair pinkish because it looks like pinkish shadows in the ref shot. Do you want pinkish/blond hair or more of brown/blond hair? I'm also going to redo the eyes so let me know if you have a color preference other than violet
It's a busy week this week (why isn't it still the Thanksgiving holiday?!?!) so I probably won't have another update until the weekend D:
I'm using Elements though, so there are some options I can't change that some tutorials with CS2+ talk about 
like brush flow. I usually just stick to soft and hard circle brushes and sometimes venture off to the natural brushes.
Yeah, there are a ton of brush options for you to play around with. I'm not familiar at all with Elements, but I can only guess that their brush panel is somewhat advanced. Try searching google for brush types that work in Elements. I'm sure you'll find something there that works a lot better than the default brushes.
I thought I could somehow turn this into a Wintersday entry, but I don't think what I want to do will work since I'd have to change a lot to make it happen 
). Then when you think it looks good then hide the layer and show it again and see the difference and what you like better. When you paint you oftenly get used to things and don't see it anymore if its too dark or too flat or too light, etc. To see it its the case such things always help me (aswell as adjustment layers 
) Might work for you too ^^ But don't use the palette everytime 
