Making of commission based on Vincent van Gogh's "Starry Night Over the Rhône".
To comply with the request (to emulate van Gogh's style and use one of his paintings as a backdrop), I've painted a simplified version of the background with rich oil brush and painted over vectored characters (1), applied a (modified) filter in Filter Forge 8 plugin (2), painted over the characters with oil brush to separate them from the background (3) and made final adjustments in Photoshop (4).