CGing Result

As promised, the result of (roughly, on and off) a week's worth of fiddling with--and cursing at--Photoshop:

I wish I could claim that the oil-painted look was intentional, but it wasn't--my goal was the soft gradients usually seen in manga-style CG artwork. As best as I've divined, that requires a technique of applying brushstrokes at extremely low opacity, and using an equally low-opacity eraser to shape / smooth things out. It's a lot harder than it should be, but I suppose with practice it'll get easier.

Unfortunately, this is all the time I can spare for CG training in the immediate future; I have to get back to Book One revisions, and my job begins September 1st.