I was thinking to add the title as text but then i just left in the title
Sorry no snow due to the close equator

i could not resist the post it even if all the littlele colored circles distract from what was my initial goal that was experiment another kind of digital painting effect

here without the distraction from psychedelic circles may be more more clear what i wish to achieve, at full size you may see the brush-strokes especially on girl skin

ORIGINAL PR0JECT

not sure if you have seen some old hand colored photo and postcard, i was trying to emulate that style of brushing

PLEASE, see at FULL size for FULL effect !

if there is interest i may include short tutorial i have still the xcf (with all gmic setting embedded in the layer names) and the process is simple ,(but use also 1 very slow filter twice so require a bit of patience )

I was trying also as possible new filter but the manual process has a big advantage you may add the pwer to the layermask

to give a idea this basically was used as new greyscale



But with this added highlight ( so this below used in Lighten Only Mode to clean eyes face hand and other main highlight )

PS i just get another xmas postcard from the warm shore of elsewhere but this seems addressed to a certain Lylejk...oh he just posted ...oh well