In step 1 I corrected levels and saturation and darkened the background around the edges and painted some characters in the leaves using the airbrush tool, I use a wacom intuos 3
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In step 2 i painted some more characters and the petals from the flower, always using the airbrush tool
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in this step I painted the eyes and gave form to the nose
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In the last step I painted the mouth and gave little touches to all the characters in the leaves