Prepare the base image - brush out minor skin flaws, blend jpeg moire artifacts. Also masked the hand and then the forefinger separately, to make it easier to isolate and paint shadows and light later.
Duplicated the base layer and applied Surface Blur to soften the image. Erased eyes and lips to bring back the definition on original layer underneath.
Duplicated the base layer and applied Surface Blur to soften the image. Erased eyes and lips to bring back the definition on original layer underneath.

Great work. Love the Gif!
(5 years and 3129 days ago)Very good job on the Animation.
(5 years and 3127 days ago)