Avatar project (first Avatar creation)

Welcome back!  This week's project was to design an avatar from a portrait.  Here is the final submission, along with a before/after side-by-side for comparison.

First, let me show you the final version.

Here is a side-by side comparison (for some reason, the conversion process darkened the main image in this one - the final shows better colors - see below):

Side-by-side

Here is the final version:

Avatar creation

Here are the photos used in the final creation:

Credit: Beautiful Waterfall in the Jungle by iCandyGirl

Credit: "Elod-Eye" by Frédéric DUPONT is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0. 

Credit: Kutia kondh woman uploaded by Kitkatcrazy~commonswiki is licensed under GNU