…So, after having seen your OP, and working a bit with my own ideas for a remake, I sat down and made this, the Satyr Guardian.
I am very pleased with it, and Im grateful for your OPs, I actually didnt want to do the crystal ball glow, cause Ive already done that on another pic, but you convinced me 
Thanks again, It’s really been inspiring, and this has spurred me on to finish quite a few of the pictures in my storagefolder, I hope that is inspiring to you…
Hey Steven, I was wondering if you can help me out with my latest painting, there are some anatomy issues that maybe you can help me out with:
hello sir…
Im picking back up an older piece and realized why I stopped working on it in the first place. Im stuck. I thought I put it up for alittle C&C. Any anatomy suggestions? lighting? need the most help around the face. Its supposed to be like the old Pin-up style… kinda bettie page tribute. Thanks for everything.
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slangford: Nice picture. The composition for a pinup is good, the form and drawing is good. It’s just that you need more contrast, especially in the skin. More light to dark and different hues.
Hey,
This photo looks so much better than my painting and i was wondering if you could make it more like the photo as it was based on the photo.
Thanks for your help in advance 
Sam
Hi Mr. Stahlberg, thanks for the paint over!!!
I like a lot how you made him stand out more and at the same time made the background look more foggy and mysterious.
By the way, the fact of having him heavily sunlit and the background in a clouds/fog mood makes sense to my eyes, but I don’t know if doing it without showing the sun itself showing through the clouds breaks some kind of rule. Just wondering…I’m a total newbie in illustration.
Thanks again, I like it more 
Glad you like it!
The lighting, well I always fake it a little if I have to, because to me the more important thing is the result not whether it’s plausible or not… but in this case I think it’s not UN-plausible, that the lighting could look like this, all it takes to mute the light on the wall would be a very porous surface, like stone (which often ‘sucks’ light), and light striking it at an acute angle. This would tend to make the wall much darker than the skin. Further, it’s possible to imagine some kind of outcropping to the right, nothing huge just a little ridge or something, that would throw a shadow across the wall. I think it’s important to sort of mold the environment to your needs, to what you want it to look like.
Hello Mr Stahlberg,
I would like you to cast an eye over my image. I’ve tried to paint a chaotic atmosphere, with a burning castle which means the end of monarchy. Maybe the stone of walls should be more textured, or maybe the people should look more “human”. The light might be also wrong…
Thank you really for your time and your work.
Katrigan, nice pic, I like the colors. I’ll paint over it in a little while, but for now a couple text comments:
the roof should be burning before anything else burns, usually, as heat rises and it’s made of wood. It works like the wick of a candle. See these reference below:
Also, the crowd is a bit too close together and is difficult to read as people. I’ll show you what I mean later.
hey steven
many thanks for your paintover – not sure its the direction i will go with the image but your crits have given me other ideas which maybe help even more.
once again many thanks
cheers
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Hello Mr. Stahlberg thank you so much for doing this. I’ve wanted to post this picture for a while, but I tried to finish it as much I can before that. Unfortunately I’m pretty stuck now…would you please take a look? 
I think on most of the paint overs the most striking thing you change is the overal lighting, which really improves/creates the mood. Well this painting (which is a fan piece actually) is one that needs a lighting fixer upper…I wanted to have three light sources, but I can’t seem to make it work. There’s the sun, the gunfire from the gun shes holding, and they’re supposedly falling into something like a “digital world” (eek doesn’t that sound cheesy :p), which emits a blue glow. Can the blue glow be added without making it too complicated?
Also, I tried to add movement by making their hair flow a bit, but it didn’t really work, so if I was to add something like motion blur, do you have any tips as to where to add it? Or is there a better way to create some movement?
Other than that…is anything else that should be changed?
Well thank you so much for looking at this, I reeally appreciate you doing this.
Hey Steven, I was just messing around in photoshop, maby you could come up with something creative with this
http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/9403/1un6.jpg
its up to you if you want to do a paintover, I realize its really basic.
I need some serious help with this image… It just doesnt make any sense… can you help me out a littlebit please? 
fullview: http://robin.reign.se/skit/come-clarity-webhigh3.jpg
rblitz7, what is that in the background, a nuclear explosion or something smaller?
ewkn, what is actually going on in this picture, what’s the backstory?
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Great stuff in here, very educational.
I’ve been dabbling around a lot but never dared a ful environment. So this is my first go it has some hours in it, but I think this is the time to get some help before I foul up terribly lol.
So it’s basically two nukes going off in the background dropped by the dreadnaughts in view, I guess this is working towards good blocking in order to do a matte painting of imaginary scenery.
this is a prisoner in a futuristic yet, old designed city. The things connected to his arms sucks his life energy away and supplys the city with power. This is a prisoner of war btw
New update available now with some armor on
fullview: http://robin.reign.se/skit/come–neweditions3.jpg
