I wanted to try more digital art, I've been tweaking this photo for 2 days and finally gave up and just blurred the busy background. Not sure if it matches the painted look in the foreground
The photo looks very much like a paintig.From a painters view,a couple sugestions,the shadow of the left eye is overdone,the right hand is muddy and the background needs to be a receding color,perhaps a dark green. Also pull some of the background color down into the sofa and pillows. I do not know how to tweak a photo like this but you have doone a good job making it look like a painting!
It would help a lot if you cleaned up the dark area under her eye - it looks like she's the unfortunate victim of a bruise. Also, some of her pupil is blended too much over the white area in the same eye.
Also, her feet are better defined than her hands, which is somewhat distracting/disturbing.
The crop helps dramatically from the previous photo. And there is definitely still possibility in this picture. It's going an interesting direction.
The only other thing I could add is that it would be nice to have more interesting light falling on her, so that even as a painting, it looked a bit more magical. The couch got some interesting light but her face was fully shaded, and rather flatly lit.
0 
