My Deviantart Gradient Mesh Video Tutorial: [link]
This is the Amazing Susan Coffey, beautiful model, one of the best on DA (in my opinion).I wanted to work from this model's photo for a while now, but I couldn't get her to actually write me back. So I found one of the photographer's that took pictures of her and he gave permission in his description to use this image freely, so i did just that. No blurs or effects were used to create this piece. Enjoy!Done in Illustrator CS5. Tools used: gradient mesh, pen tool. Time completed: About 35 hours.