Paint-on-Photos: Hell fire to Angel's breath

Oh my cheeseballs I am so proud of this! My first time using Photoshop properly, I have never explored it properly before now! This is my first ever Photo-manipulation. The photo used is my own photo and has not been taken from somebody else's stock, webpage, etc. the entire image is mine from start to finish--from taking the photo to this final result. ^^


Those feathers and flames took forever for me to draw. This is actually just a photo which I painted over and changed in Photoshop, I tell ya...that Smudge Tool is my best friend. Took about 4 hours overall and I have literally just painted over my photo and changed it so much to the point that nothing is the same as before--this is literally just me drawing over the photo to create a digital piece rather than a photo-manipulation. The eye looks nothing like the actual photo in terms of the shape and iris anymore.

THIS IS COPYRIGHTED TO ME! Nobody is allowed to use, alter, manipulate, or re-colour it under any conditions or circumstances without my permission. I personally created my watermark for a reason.

Please, please, PLEASE, if you see this anywhere, be it altered or anything under a different name that is not my own--report it to me immediately! This is the real deal and is the original.

Apart from that I hope you like it. ^^