Welcome Autumn !

thank you very much for your comment. I suppose you were referring to the scratchy look of the image. I achieved this by using some brushes I made from scratchy texture, with different "angles"..After having designed these brushes, I just applied them on the image, in shades of white, gray and yellow, depending on the color on which I was applying them, in order to get a nice contrast..But I think you could achieve a similar result by applying a scratchy texture on the image maybe.

I love your work!!!!

Allan