Copied and pasted to new layer. Flipped horizontal in Edit/Transform.
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Began roughly filling in face.
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Cut out the source to create a crown type of adornment and the top of his body.
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I overlayed another copy of the source on the face for more accesories.
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I drew in Pyramids and considered leaving the background with the source but decided to go with a different background and change the crown.
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Created a Staff by copying and pasting part of the gate source on to a different layer.
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Increased the size of the Staff. I bean painting in the hand with a dark background
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More painting of the hand.
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Finished the hand. Added the ring from the source. Guassian blur for the DOF effect.
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Added more to crown. Cut and pasted here and there. Blending in face with crown using cloning, shading, and blur/blur tool.
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Began painting in lips.
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Continued painting in lips.
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Worked on eyes. Added upper and lower eyelids by drawing with the lasso tool, filling with the clone stamp of the face, then adding shading with black paint and blurring.
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Finished the eyes. Finished the crown. Cleaned up up as needed.