This guy does some pretty awesome stuff...

[Mike]

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[ScottyB]

that's awesome! i wanna learn how to do that stuff.

sorry for the OT, but this is another amazing p-shop artist:

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- he does everything with the "paintbrush" function in p-shop...pretty astounding.

[G.Irish]

The first guy has to be using Illustrator to do some of that stuff, unless he is an extreme masochist. Not super hard to do technique-wise, but very painstaking and time-consuming work. I've done vector illustrations of photos a few times and it was enough to make me not wanna do it again for fun.