ME ME ME

So I was gonna try to do a piece where I worked way harder on the pencil drawing, and then painted sparingly, letting the pencils shine through. The result of that thought process was this pencil drawing:




Then I saw this website: http://bluhmdigitalpodcast.blogspot.com/
This Bluhm character shows how to make photoshop look like an oil painting, and he talks about his techniques as he does it, and well the bottom line is I decided to give his methods a shot. I'm pretty pleased with the results: