Beautiful Girl in Black Hooded - Digital Oil Painting

The beauty of a girl is an interesting object to serve as a model for digital painting. In this post, I present a digital painting of a girl's beauty with an oil painting effect technique using photoshop. Because what I used as a model was a beautiful girl wearing a black hooded, I was inspired to give a gothic feel to this painting that I created.

I've created it using photoshop, and the stages and methods I use are as follows:

1. This digital painting is a combination of 3 different images, i.e.: (1) background image, the original image can be found here, (2) a picture of a girl in a black hooded, the original image can be found here, and (3) a picture of a wildflower, the original image can be found here
2. I use image size 1380 px; 1380 px, with the resolution of 300 ppi
3. Place the background image on the bottom layer position, Use the smudge brush tools (64% strength) to smoothen the texture of the background image
4. To create an oil painting effect for the background image uses the filter - noise - greyCstoration, repeat this method up to 3 times
5. Duplicate the background image that has been made, change the blend mode to screen (opacity 22%);
6. Place the image of the girl in a black hooded on top of the background layer, use the layer mask technique to display the image without a background
7. Still on the girl in a black hooded image layer, adjust the color composition using image - adjustment - selective color (cyan 25, magenta 25), then use color balance (yellow -30), after that adjust the level (composition: 8-1.00-255), and adjust the brightness and contrast (brightness -30, contrast 20). This method is used to make the girl's image darker
8. To create an oil painting effect for the girl image uses the filter - noise - greyCstoration, repeat this method up to 3 times
9. Duplicate the image of the girl in a black hooded image layer image that has been made, change the blend mode to screen (opacity 22%);
10. Place the image of the wildflowers on top of the girl image layer, change the blend mode to vivid light (opacity 100%)
11. Still on the wildflowers image layer, adjust the color composition using image - adjustment - selective color (cyan 25, magenta 25), then use color balance (yellow -30), after that adjust the level (composition: 8-1.00-255), and adjust the brightness and contrast (brightness -30, contrast 20). This method is used to make the wildflowers' image darker
12. To create an oil painting effect for the wildflowers image uses the filter - noise - greyCstoration, repeat this method up to 3 times
13. Duplicate the image of the wildflowers image layer image that has been made, then move to the right side;
14. To create a painting effect on canvas using filter - filter gallery - texture- texturizer (canvas) 
15. Lighting effects using brightness and contrast (with contrast -39, and brightness 60)
16. Color effects using vibrance (with vibrance 0, and saturation 10)
17. As the final of the steps mentioned above, give the finishing touches according to your imagination and creativity.

After the brief explanation regarding the stages and how I create a digital oil painting effect as described above, what do you think about the beauty of a beautiful girl in a black hooded combined with the beauty of the oil paint effect? Can you feel the gothic sensation in my digital painting... enjoy