It seems like the silhouette can be hidden a little with some textures added. I could do something like that (without touching up the actual dog itself). It looks kind of neat with some vintage colors and paper-like quality added to it as well, but all depends what you're looking for and if...
I was just screwing around with it to see how it worked when layered. If you want me to work on it some more while trying to retain some of the original colors or something, I can give it a shot.
All good man.
You asked me to help you back in March, I showed you this and got no response.
I'm more than happy to keep working on it - just wanted you to see that due to the quality/lighting in the picture you supplied, the top half of it is hard to manipulate in a way that makes it...
Everything you want is absolutely easy to give you... except the "rather see the face" part. That would require an actual artist to redraw it for you. Unless I'm not understanding correctly. Most people here will just layer/photoshop/adjust levels and add certain elements and text.
I'm sure...