La Flor de Venezuela

I've been wanting to do a drawing of her for a LONG time. The woman in the drawing is Miss Venezuela/Miss Universe 2008 and whom I consider the most beautiful woman on earth. I loved drawing this, seriously. Even though politically Venezuela is one hell of a messed up place, the women are just angels in a sea of chaos. This is a perfect example of it.

The drawing is based off this image [link] (I know I did a black bikini instead of the 99999999999999999 billion beads around her neck but I didn't wanna spend 5 hours painting all of them since I wanted to finish this before the start of the week. Besides, black on black looks better ) I did this probably in about 14 hrs using CS4 and my wacom tablet.

Edits: I added a different, improvised BG and gave her more definition, a different top bikini, and changed her hair style completely.