@hubba bubba after looking at the cadians gallery i can undestand where your suspician came from but i did not copy or get inspiration from it, i made it becuase i wanted to attempt osl and i had a spare wounded guardsmen. if i did get inspiration from somewhere i would have mentioned it as i dont believe in not giving credit to the origninal artist
nice effort man:) the key to osl is contrast, have a chat with shaun in the forums, he has helped a lot of people with this painting "trick". @quicksilver, being extremely rude and putting peoples work down is not helping them, helpfull and constructive critisism is far more beneficial.