Thank you! I'm not sure how to describe the process without it sounding utterly simplistic. I had a couple photo references, one for Captain Phasma and another for the background. I blocked it in very roughly at first to get the basic colors and light/dark areas, and the rest was just a slow process of whittling away at it to smooth out the colors, using the references extensively to make sure I got the painting as accurate to the original as possible. If you download it and zoom in you can see it's really just a bunch of dots and small strokes, there wasn't really any blending. As for the background, I was helped out by filters. Once I had the shapes of the lights, the rest was just color gradients, blur filter and film grain filter.