Photoshop experiment

Decided to do some practice with graphic arts. A lot of commercial ads and other artsy venues make use of this, so I figured it's a good skill to have. I still letting prefer plain ol' photos speak for itself though.

Before.

After.

I followed a tutorial to make this. I'm not crazy about it. But part of it could be this candidate wasn't right for this kind of art. This took about 2 hours to make...I could've done it in a little less, but the directions were lousy.