I’ve added a small amount of illustration to the sleeve and right side of the dress… now that I have it to this stage… the hands look strange…
I blended the lightest  color fabric into the next by gently shading with a sand Tsukineko pen… but it looks clunky….I may have to re-do it completely…I need to add a little more detail to the dress and and then I only have to do the necklace and I think I will be happy with this part of the portrait.
I’m going to put her into a fabric frame…. and by that I mean that I will have a floating frame on the image…
The frame will look like a heavily decorated picture frame, but it will be all illustrated….