As stated in the title, this piece has no focal, and I was really just fucking around at first. Then 3 hours passed by and I started to get serious about it.
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Ryan, thanks for the tutorials, I think they helped.
Dark BG:
imgur: the simple image sharer
I was going for a decent flow, and really just fucking around to see what I could do with my smudge tool and custom brush.
CnC would be appreciated.
(Ended up with about 20 applied images sharpening and blurring certain parts, I do realize it's inconsistent as I did each line on another layer/after I had sharpened a layer.)