This step when i began to tweak the mask with liquify, i was actually tweaking it randomly did not use any references and this is what i came up with.
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I masked out the face.
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some cleaning up, used clone stamp tool and brush tool with hard round brush to clean up parts of the face, in this step i sketched the eyes and started to paint them already, but i was running out of time so i decided to use the eyes stock.
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here i made a quick sketch to guide me through the painting process
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Painting the clothes with hard round brush and variety of colors
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using the jeans texture from cgtexture.com
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re-sized the mouth and drew the hair, no tutorials used, it's my own way