A Work in Progress: Baby to Old man

This guide was made for entry:
Baby to Old man
In Contest:
baby foot

Original image

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I removed the wrinkles from the foot.

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using that image I created a skin textured background.

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Then I marked the areas I wanted with pen tool and made different layers using the texture.

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Using the reference image I started giving dimensions to the layer image. Here I used burn tool and dodge tool for most of the work.

sources used for this step:

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and I continued the process explaine in the last step here also.

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After all these I created the eyes using the same source image and added another layer to get blue tone for the eye. This was a challenging job. It gave me lot of satisfaction. I know I can still improve this entry. So I need your suggestions for that.
Thank you.