Fantasy painting of my Granddaughter

[DarkOwnt]

Excellent start!

I think the challenging part will be matching the imaginary lighting of the tree, dolphin and other fantasy creatures with the real lighting on the girl, so that they all appear to be in the same world. Being less accomplished I myself would try to unify the lighting by making maquettes and trying to replicate the lighting of the reference picture. Better painters than I could do it all from imagination... which if I tried would look like the vintage or cheap special effects, whose mismatched fake looking lighting we are all familiar with!

You’ve got a really awesome start to a really admirable challenge! Tally ho!