I've been using Paint Shop Pro for all my graphics for a long time. I know, it's cheap...but it did what I needed it to do and did not cost much.

Now a customer of mine is doing all their graphics in Photoshop so (darn the luck) I had to buy it for business use. This is my first attempt at using it for something decidedly not business related.

She's supposed to have a sort of mane-like effect with her hair...I'll have to play with that more.