It is kind of like this:

Back in the late 80's, I sketched out a rough pencil. It was for a publication, a Zine to be exact. It was decided to go with a different sketch of mine at the time, so I never did more than the sketch. Then, about thirty years in the future, maybe a little more, maybe a little less, I am looking at some of my old surviving sketches, and I think to myself, "I would like to finish this one."
Of course, I made some changes, fixing some of the errors that I did not realize in the past. Mostly they were found in the face, and the breasts.

This is the first piece I have done that really makes use of some of the features of modern digital art tools. I have been working with multiple layers for many years, but I have still constrained myself to having all of my layers set for the normal setting. In essence, working with things as if I was working traditionally. This work, in contrast, was done using multiple multiply layers, and an overlay layer. They create an interesting effect, and to be honest, feel like something I could really enjoy working with more in the future.

She was originally intended to be a brown haired girl. In that vision, I had planned the leaf's floating near her to be green. However, as I worked to understand the layering of her brown hair, I did decide to see what would happen if I made her hair green. This did produce a much more vibrant piece, with depths of contrast that I immediately realized had to remain. This did require redoing her hair again, but the end product is much better than I was able to imagine.
Because of this, I had to change both the colouring of her clothes, particularly the ribbon around her neck, and the colour of the floating leaf's. The choice of a yellow ribbon was quick, mostly because it works, but also because of a short story my wife is very fond of[1]. For leaf colour, I initially considered brown, but it seemed too dull. It did not fit well with the green and yellow. Instead, outside of my home, there is a small Japanese Maple tree, which grows red leaf's. Green was the dominant colour of the image, with yellow being one direction on the colour wheel, and red was the opposite direction, and felt like a good balance.
I do hope you agree.

Thank you again to my wife  kacey. She took extra time from her work to help with understanding a number of aspects of Clip Studio Paint, again. Even if I use the program in an entirely different manner than she does, her help in understanding many of the distinct intricacies of it's operation has allowed me to learn many things at an accelerated rate.
Also, thank you to  echoic. Her encouragement and willingness to help do make a difference.

As usual, questions, comments, other considerations are more than welcome. Thank you.

[1] story found here : http://americanfolklore.net/folklor.....ow_ribbon.html