Sometimes you gotta smudge

My art teacher used to tell us not to smudge the picture with our fingers when drawing, and ever since I have tried to follow her advice. But this time, after a loooong while, I slipped and I smudged. And boy, did it feel good :D I got myself a new sketchbook a while back and now I finally got it started with this picture that I drew from some old issue of Tush-magazine.

It's almost Christmas and I'm getting excited - hope you're having a nice pre-Christmas time as well :)

-Maria