[krantzbucks]

The bat was all that was left. The bat poses several problems. It is almost entirely washed out and white with no grain of the bat or any details. This makes color look very flat which in turn makes the bat look two-dimensional. I made several attempts to add texture to the bat (filter noise, blurring, there is an option in the 'edit' menu 'fill with pattern' that provides a wood-grain look but it is very cartoony) but none of these were very convincing. In the end, I decided to give Hermoso a black bat to hide the bat imperfection as best I could.
I thought that the completed image turned out pretty well. The Hermoso portion I thought looks good (though I am not sure what is going on with the thumb) Weaknesses are the trees and that dad-blasted bat (I spent a lot of fruitless effort working on that thing) I hope this walkthrough provided enough detail for you.