This was done way back in 2004 too. It was my second attempt in digital painting although there are a lot of hiccups here and there. Some comments which I have received before are “background too blurry” which is true, since I’m doing it at its exact resolution. I then found out from the thumbnails generated, it is better to start off big (2x resolutions) and then resize it to the desire resolution for painted background.

The Joe scan took me quite awhile also, to clean up the noise using 5% smudge method and adding extra lighting for her to fit into the scene.