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Techniques:

1) Magnetic lasso to remove image from original source, replace sky in background. Create additional images to use as shadows.
2) Transform for angle of shadows and image angle.
3) Dodge & Burn for image highlights.
4) Healing brushes to remove initial shading and uneven elements on Golf course as well as eraser for skyline and imperfections in image.
5) Layer Filters to influence lighting and general effects.
6) Transform to angle correctly both the image as well as shading.

I didn't use any outside sources -- just a version of the green eyes photo from which I had already removed the hands & the background & done various corrections to the lips, etc. On this version I added black & yellow stripes in the hair & scarf region to make her look sphinx-like; used the bas relief filter; paint bucketed black into the background; & color corrected/colorized to get her looking gold-going-on-bronze.

Made in Illustrator and PS.