What're You Looking At?!

For this project I took a picture and made it appear as if it looked painted.  This turned out to be a fun, new and exciting project that I really enjoyed.  

Once again, this was completed on my tablet using Procreate.  At first I used some painting brushes to give the picture an oil based or water brushed affect, but ended up using the smudge tool which I felt blended the colors together a little better and still gave the illusion that the picture was painted.  I also used Photoshop to adjust some brightness and contrast.  

I'm pretty happy with how this turned out.  It never occurred to me to try and do something like this before, so it was fun trying something new and it made for a really cool looking picture i think.