First Part of the CD Cover

This time, I decided to do a CD Cover for my favorite Japanese artist, Miyavi. So I figure out, instead of creating a story-like cover, a cover with wild watercolor splash fits more into his character. And here we go...

Miyavi

1. Open a new document. Set a gradient overlay background.

2. Experience with different brushes with various sizes, flow, and opacity.

3. Select his upper body out with quick selection tool, and then drag him on top of the brush layers.

4. Add a Hue/Saturation and a Curve adjustment layers as clipping mask to create contrast.

5. Add some more strokes around the body and head.

Here's what I got so far, and I'll add some more vector components and type to it later on.