Thank you for your kind comments and interest! I don't know if I will earn a lot with my first art job, but at least I'm earning a living doing art and that's what matters! I've spent about 10 years now working my way toward this goal of going independent and working from home so it's a huge step for me and hopefully the first of many. I used upwork.com and was able to find a client relatively quickly, there's definitely lots of work out there for freelancers!

Because this new practice is a bit new for me and it's really difficult for me I wasn't able to lay out some of the stages this painting took. I'll try to remember for next time if you are wondering how to approach digital painting. It's kind of like acrylic in my opinion. I've started to use softer brushes to get more gradients and blending brushes to soften edges but besides that, you can still put down a pretty good layout like you would with acrylic using digital. A lot of professional artists say not to get too bogged down with all the features and stick with the round brush to start and I think that's pretty accurate. I don't think the fancy brushes help me, they actually make me waste time because I often don't know how or when to use them. Just a thought though, playing with brushes is a lot of fun!