Painting in bloo-Photoshop.

A few weeks ago (maybe even a month ago, whooops) I was assigned to do a painting in photoshop using the mixing paint brush, The brush basically uses the same rules as an actual brush/paint where you need things to blend and if you're awful, then you get that nasty brown from mixing all of the colors.
The picture below was what I was given to paint-ify.

Personally, I hate the composition of this picture, but whatever. It seems too simple and it really doesn't help guide your eye through the piece.

An assignment is an assignment I suppose.

And then here is my finished painting. It looks kinda cool, I'm just happy it doesn't look like the example image (which was all awful and scratchy for some reason... Paintbrushes aren't scratchy?)

I already use this brush a little bit outside of assignemnts, it's fun messing with to create texture and odd gradients, and this was fun practice for it.

Our next project was to grab a different picture and make it all paintery on our own

Above is the image I used

And dadaaa, my final is below!

My biggest issue was trying to add the smaller details and still show a lot of the texture and motion of the water. Next time I'll try and get a bigger picture and use a smaller brush.

Our last project was to paint something without using something as a base/guide, so I drew a weird portrait of a friend of mine.

For Halloween, she dressed up as a dog. It looked really good on her, so I attempted to draw it from memory.