Experimenting with Comic Art and Painting in Photoshop

Trying to teach myself how to paint in Photoshop, since I'm trained in traditional media it's been a rough transition, but I sat down with my Wacom tablet and a big ass bottle of Dr. Pepper and hammered most of this out in two nights.

I started with the Line work:

Next I painted in  color with various layer effects and distortion techniques followed by many many hours of tweaking the details:

 It's no Mona Lisa, but it's better than any of the other photoshop paintings I've done, I'm really proud of the results. The whole thing is meant to be a character concept for a new project I'm working on called "The Wall of Sand".