first, the work:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/30598092/ and http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/33306427/?qo=9&q=by%3Avariant73&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps
i hav seen some people faking art.
some people are making "vexels" just cutting a selection of the car and applying a Photoshop filter, like blur filter, etc.
let me explain, effects looks the same to my cars but the process is very very different
due to this fact, i made a composition with some screenshots where is shown all layers, the layer window in Photoshop and the proprieties window in Windows :
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/37003023/?q=by%3Avariant73+in%3Ascraps&