I've been a huge fan of vector art for years. But I hardly have the patience to actually create a vector image of my own. So here's my first and only completed piece of vector art.
God I hate vectors.
You can tell I got lazy around the bangs and the nose, but my hand started twitching after using the pen tool for so long and so I took a few shortcuts.
Adobe Photoshop, 65 layers/paths, 3 hours. Reference image.