How a Digital Painting is Done

I posted a while back about how through perseverance it's possible to work in a medium like MS Paint.  I thought I might show a similar process this time but with the benefit of working with a tablet in photoshop.

If you click on the first picture you should be able to scroll through them and see the painting come together. On average, there's about 30 minutes of work between each shot.

Hopefully this perspective reveals something of how the magic trick works.

I often take a lot of shortcuts with digital, but this time I decided to just use the source photo for visual reference, rather than incorporating it in any way back into the painting.

Cheers!