It's very possible to get the results that Kaos gets by drawing and digitally painting from scratch. That's how I do my cartoons...by drawing them on paper and painting them from scratch in photoshop. Im not as good as Kaos, but he's the one that taught me.
in reality that's not painting though, just adding color where needed then darkening & lightening is not painting, that's just photo editing, on all the stuff you or he does, you can see it's really not much involved with it? I mean you might darken or lighten the areas with an airbrush, but you didn't paint anything from skratch like a painter would.. it's a totally different approach.
a painter paints a base color then paints all the features on top of it with different shades etc.
and i'm not saying it to knock anyone, but it's just a different process.
and lol @ the kat who said school pic arms are cut off....... yeah but that's where the picture stops dumb ass, they don't cut it off and then the background keeps going, big difference... also a fucking school pic isn't painted........ FAIL!!!