I had some setbacks. I totally didn't like the direction the hair was going (see left side), and so I decided to completely redo the style, but I am still experimenting to find a technique that looks good. Also doing this with a mouse sucks. I miss my wacom tablet. The edges aren't as hard as they look either as this is still much larger than the intended final resolution, even scaled down a bit. The actual size I am working with is 2x1024 vertical, so 2048px, of which I am not using 100% of the workspace because at that resolution I can draw all the characters at scale for a uniform appearance, and when they get shrunken down, the hard edges will be smoothed, but have a nice crisp sharp appearance. This doesn't work as well with soft brushes or anti aliasing.