What I've Learned So Far

This first one gave me SO MUCH TRAINING. I learned about overlays, different kinds of brushes, Gaussian blurs, and how to manipulate and add colors to add over and under toning. I took an image that was already made, and changed it to be darker and added blood. It took approximately  4-6 hours.
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This next photo is incomplete. It helped learn how to draw and create things from scratch, how to apply gradient colors to a selected area, and how to manipulate color to make lighting effects. It was supposed to be the Northern Lights. This one took over 10 hours in total because everything was created and made from scratch, all I had was a blank canvas.

Keep in mind that the hours are crazy because I have to look up tutorials in order to perform the techniques I did. Also, I am extremely new, I had to learn from square one, and make this, which is a pretty far ways to go in 2 months.