Further Adventures in Photoshop

Ok, for reasons I cannot explain I wanted to do a drawing of Dick Valentine from Electric Six riding a playground pony and pointing skyward...

THIS is the original photograph:

THIS is the shitty sketch I drew in about five minutes:

 

THIS is the shitty sketch touched up and colored in photoshop:

 

The process takes FOREVER though, kinda thinking I'm doing something either wrong or not doing something necessary to simplify it. More on this later...