The essence of making a digital painting from a photo or Poser render is to separate the contours, colour, and values of an image in order to manipulate and abstract them; then creative brush strokes are used to make the image more "painterly". These methods work best with images where the most important element is over 300 pixels to a side but here is a render where I have scaled up a figure with a 40 pixel wide face, created the drawing layer which was somewhat thick and lacking in detail, and used a small brush with black and white to refine the detail and create drawing-like strokes. For the beginner it is best to work with a render of something like a face that is 300 or 400 pixels wide.
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