I'm an Alien from Outerspace

Her name is Janelle Monae. She's my new favorite artist. Go youtube her. Look out for Many Moons and VioletStarsHappyHunting. She's got this crazy style and she's new, fresh, inspiring and innovative. Seriously, check her out.

This was done all in corel in the gouache brush and I'm actually kinda proud how it came out. I was working from frustration with a certain someone and throughout the entire thing, I'm blasting Janelle's music. I wanted to really get the background so I definitely jacked it from the original picture. Not sure how to work gradients in corel yet, so yeah I'm a bit of a cheater in that aspect.

Reference pic - [link]

7 and half hours (<--I KNOW, right?!), all in corel.
Hardest part- Her left hand. It was really hard to get that weird angle she's got going on there.