This was made using color editor, color picker. Make a small shape, pick the color, make another, pick the color, adjust the shade etc etc. Add them like scales of a fish. Actually there is around 255 of them. It was a long and boring work, but the result is small and exported to flash it has around 24kb.
http://www.redizajn.sk/maria%20de%20medeiros.jpg
Here is the portrait exported to SWF.
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