Very good.

25 years earlier he was a cartoon...?

Bob - Please consider: Comments have consequences. Positive comments encourage people. Negative comments with solutions help people grow. Negative comments discourage people and can cause someone to give up Pxleyes after 111 days of excellent entries. Making a joke at
the authors expense also discourages the author and gives others the impression that the entry is substandard. Rules 3.4 and 3.8 deal with theses issues. I'm pretty sure you meant your comment as a joke. However it was a joke at my expense. I am not ready to pack up and
leave Pxleyes yet, but if I do, you will be one of the main reasons.

Author, although challenging and certainly old, perhaps your chosen source is too lined and too gritty-looking to effectively convert the face to a younger age without over-processing it beyond human appearance. The overly-illustrative quality of your work is too jarring to be against the real photo, split-screen style. In addition to benefiting from skin textures with shadows and light, the drawn character should (but does not even) retain the original eye color, and the entire drawing raised up a few pixels to provide more symmetry with the physical features on the photo side. Although I say basically the same thing as CMYK46, hope you are not as sensitive to this comment.

Elemare - took some of your suggestions and improved the picture a little. Thanks

One day at a time and we all start somewhere, good luck author Using the Dodge and Burn tools are very hard, and have a bazillion settings, but it's very nice to see the effort