Kayleigh - Vector Synthesis

The original picture, from a photoset of Kayleigh @ DA, really captured my attention when I first laid eyes on it. After spending the last few months drawing cars and other stills, I thought it might be a nice change to try my hand at a portrait. Multitudes of vectors, fills, lenses, transparencies, gradients and meshes; 14,500 nodes; 1000 objects, and 35 hours of my life were spent on this recreation... This is the result.