great job... well done indeed. I thought the original sketch was very good, the final version is fantastic. And putting the topic over a live photo background was done marvelously well also. Not that any of your work is of less then greatly done to begin with. I will look forward to the next finished pieces as well.
I found the picture online and put it as it's own layer in a seperate picture. Then I just used the lasso tool in Photoshop to cut out the picture of the girl and dragged a copy over to the background pic. After that I just colored in the breath on another layer that was on top of the other two ^_^