"PAINTOVER PLEASE" - painted crits on demand - with Steven Stahlberg

#981

Hi. Hopefully it is ok to post even though you are traveling. I saw someone else recommend this thread -wow! can this really be free? Worth a million bucks, thanks for offering this.

I picked up ArtRage and am trying to get into painting. This image just popped out so it wasn’t planned but ended up being a warrior in an ice cave with a small stream on the floor? I am totally confused by how to do the lighting and all the reflections and how to make sure the floor reads as water, guess the warriors reflection has to carry it as everything else is white? Any advice on these or other subjects welcome as I really want to develop some painting skills.

#982

Hi again ^^

Ive been trying to finish this image, but the face is giving me headaques. Im not used to paint bald girls but the original concept i made was with a bald girl and i wanted to paint it.

But i dont like it, i will work on other things and get back to it at a later time so i can spot whats wrong with her, meanwhile i would like to see if you can help me spot the problems and make any suggestion you’d like.

The wings are supposed to be light green… some sort of luminecent but i want to hold the hard contrast between them and the dark cloth. Ill probably remake them since there are many flaws in them.

Thanks in advanced

#983

Hey Stahlberg.
I am working on this picture of Jesus on the cross for my church & mother for mothers day and I was wanting to paint the earth glowing (blue) and have the glow reflect off of Jesus but I’m kind of unsure where to put the highlights. I also dont know if I need darker shadows. Unfortunately this picture is a little more stylized & anatomically incorrect since I did not have a model. Any help and critiques that you can give would be greatly apreciated. Thanks in advance.

#984

Since I’ve been busy the images have stacked up, so here’s finally the whole load of back-log in one fell swoop. Phew! :smiley:

#985

Five more images


Sorry I couldn’t really find anything big and useful to comment on this one, looks ok to me. :slight_smile:

#986

The last ones:

#987

Hi Steven,

Hope you had a nice time in Stuttgart…Thank you very much for painting over my murder room. I found it very helpful. I think this is such a fantastic way on how I can improve my lighting skills…Finding my mistakes and learning from them…
I really appreciate it!

Daphne

#988

Thank you very much for that informative paint over and for your time and efforts. I’ll try that image again using your visual pointers.

#989

Hey Steven, this thread has been really helpful so far. I got this painting I’m working on, and it’s honestly my first one. I’m having a lot of trouble on it. It’s for a personal project, but I have trouble with deciding what colors i should use. Plus many other problems…

The feeling I’m trying to get, is that this “pod” is isolated in the middle of a huge crater, and has been there for a while. The guy inside is stationed in there (this is for a personal animation project), and to cut it short basically he’s like a light house attendant. The Pod is put together quickly with peices of scrap, and recycled parts, because it’s temporary. I’ve had different variations and Ideas, but I was hoping you could offer a little advice.

I put two pictures in, because the first one I tried with color pencils, and now I’m trying to use photoshop to get it the way I want. I did use a photo for the ground texture, and painted over it and manipulated it. Any criticism would be great, thanks.

#990

Hey Nick,

Who is Nick? :slight_smile:

Well, I prefer to work over someone else’s paint, rather than sketches. Maybe you could paste the less sketchy pod into the less sketchy background, exactly like you want it, maybe give it one last coat of paint, then post it here again, and I promise to do my best with it. :slight_smile:

I’ve had different variations and Ideas, but I was hoping you could offer a little advice.

I prefer not to mess with your basic idea too much, but rather the execution. The best advice for finding inspiration is to ferret out good reference. Where would I look for something like this? I guess in the 2 later Mad Max movies, Water World, The Postman, Cyborg, to start with… anything post-apocalyptic really.

#991

Woooops. Sorry about the name, my attention was diverted too a loud conversation in the background when i was typing :D. I personaly think I posted these in an excited rush, so I’m gonna do more with the painting and design.:slight_smile: Thanks for the quick feedback. Need to spend more time on these things and actually finish them, sucks when you hit a dead end.

Thanks for the inspiration.

-Lughs

#992

For some reason I can’t see the paintovers. I’m using Safari on a Mac. Should I be using something else?

#993

No, it’s just my web forwarding, I accidentally switched it on and now I have to ask Network Solutions support desk how the hell do I switch it back off again… :frowning:

edit:
that was previous evening, this is next morning, I managed to get my A-record to NSI but there’s still a problem, hold on…

#994

Hey Stahlberg!
I got my paintover yesterday, and Im here to thank you for your time! That was amazing!

#995

Hi Steven Sir ! This thread must say has been amazingly informative and cool to watch.I have been seeing this thread from almost the first page to the current one …missing a few in between but must say gained a lot of insight into what goes wrong in making of our images.Any ways but still struggling with mine .

Taking your idea i tried to do my own paint overs every time i did a version of my image,trying to find out what has gone wrong this time.But now m getting the feeling that i have reached a mental block of some kind… seeing the image over and over again…

I really need your help in taking this image further …

the story line goes like … and titled as – “When the curse wears off” - After Serving Hundreds of years in Stone,the Man and his Pet Serpant are released from the curse into the free world.Just My own imagination which i wanted to depict in Greek - Roman Style sculpture some where in a dense forest somewhere…

#996

Thanks! :slight_smile:
That’s a stone-wall behind him, right? With other statues stuck to it?

#997

yep,thats a stone wall … inspired from relief sculptures and that sort of art,but i kind of pushed that thought bit further with a mix of realism and fantasy.

#998

very nice thread mr steven , i havent really done any 2d art latetly but seeing this thread i think i might start on that pretty soon.
@rohanoka - thats a very nice piece you have there man.

#999

Amazing thread!
Very nice work man, i’m impressed.
So, here’s a piece i made:

The main idea is to capture a mysterious feeling with the light/fog.
It seems there’s a little problem with the whole thing, maybe the light, i really don’t know!
Thanks advanced :slight_smile:

#1000

First i would just like to thank you for the help on the previous painting i posted.
(here is a link to the previous one, what it looked like finished -with your help)

Here is a second one. My goal with this one is to learn more about
skintones and some anatomy. I want all colors to be smooth and natural -looking.

I have not worked much on the hand yet, and i am having trouble with her face.

Any help/crit would be helpful :slight_smile: