Artists Sketchbook

The goal of this weeks tutorial was to take an image and make it look like something from an artists sketchbook. First, I used to magic wand tool to cut out the woman from the original background. Then I added a layer mask, created a new blank layer,  and used the smudge tool on the new layer to bring the woman through the layer. Then I used the pencil sketch filter and the tutorial said to invert this layer, but later showed it as un-inverted so I'm not sure what it was supposed to be. Then a layer mask was added an a wet media brush was used to erase some smudge tool layer to blend it with the pencil sketch layer. This is where things went wrong. My image does not look very blended and does not look like an artists sketchbook painting whatsoever. Next, the paper background image was added. I used the polygonal lasso tool to select some of the hair and then transformed them into different shapes to look like brush strokes.