Starting off on Photoshop - Painting & Retouches

So the last few weeks I haven't done much modeling, too busy playing games so I can uninstall them before Battlefield 3 and Skyrim come out. I have been playing with Photoshop some though. In the process of making some abstract image for class which I'll post once it's done, but as for my own side project I retouched some old family photos and also tried painting over an image to replicate it.

Here is the original image of my little bro at the archery range, then the painted version of him, and finally the painted version on top of the original background. The hair could probably be redone, hard to get myself satisfied with it.

And some retouches of a black & white and a color photo. Gonna end up trying to make a black and white into a color image soon, whether for class or for myself.

 

Hoping to get some modeling done again soon.