this is a photo of Angelina Jolie i painted over and edited
in photoshop in order to show an example of what you
can come up with when doing such.

repainting the image took a few hours, starting with
applying the smart blur photoshop effect on the photo
and then using the smudge tool to smooth out the
sharp edges left by the smart blur filter.

the blurry outline of the character is the result of quickly
painting over the original background and character outlines
with a big soft brush.

most of the work thereafter was just smoothing out
and blurring everything with low opacity soft brush
and then repainting sharper forms with smaller brush
and smoothing out the brush strokes with the smudge
tool. All brushes were photoshop default soft brushes.

The final thing i did was to change the shape of the
face a bit using the photoshop liquify tool.

you can find the original photo here:

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