I keep coming back to my grandma for my practices... here she is again, I am trying to stay away from photo realism since I think it is boring, this time I tried combining some brush strokes with a bit finer approach.. still long way to go but it is getting somewhere. One main thing I am trying is without cheating, working like traditional and getting result as traditional... this took me a while as you can see in my process, I almost redone the whole things few times since I was not happy with it... Enjoy!