I've had so many questions about how I make my photomanipulations look painted that I thought I might aswell make some sort of a tutorial/walkthrough, to explain what I do. Bear in mind that this is NOT an airbrushing tutorial, -I can't teach you how to airbrush as I am learning myself and has a loooong way to go Besides, there are many good airbrushing tutorials on DA which you can check out. This is only an explanation to how I usually work to get the painted look on my pieces, ok?

I appologize for typos and bad English and explanations =/ I'm afraid I'm not very good at explaining things so I hope it's not too confusing Feel free to ask if something's unclear
The finished pic can be viewed here [link]

**edit: I knew I had forgotten something. In the start I say you should use circular movements when smudging. I meant to say on the face. The hair will probably look lumpy if you don't use strokes It's corrected in the zip now **

NOTE: -For some reason the download link won't work from time to time. If this happens to you, then go here [link] for the tutorial