I got mine from a charity shop. Aha! £5 for two, so me and a friend bought them and shared the cost.
Thanks gorman! To get the painted effect, I use a dark grey brush at 80% opacity, draw each grain line, sharpen at 30% lightly and then blur at 17% set to lighten. Brings out the contrasts more, and the sharpen/blur gives back basically what I draw with more contrast. This is without the major highlights, I must add. Those will be done when I get the shadows right first.
On the subject of Me Gusta, the head turned out really well but at first I thought it was lacking something. To get a more realistic look I added more than a handful of blemish around the head with a black brush on a separate layer set to overlay. It really brought a sense of humanity to it - to err is human.
Last edited by Monobi; Jul 27, 2011 at 09:43 AM.