Nefyavie

Nefyavie, bard of Il Senso De Acqua and founding member of The Seekers.

*full view please*
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Technical Bits:
Tourmaline for V4 by FK Designs
Paris 65 hair by FK Designs
Xurge Fantasy Rogue outfit by Xurge 3d
rendered in Poser 7 with Firefly Engine

On the Edge Background by Didi MC was added after render in Photoshop.
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I did a lot to enhance this image after rendering. I used a technique to vivify the render, then I used the dodge and burn tool to try to get the back lighting on the figure to match the back lighting on the tree.

I painted in the navy blue shirt inside the armor.

I painted over the hair a touch to create more highlights, enhanced the eyes, panted the lips to increase their glossiness, smoothed out a subsurface scatter that seemed to appear on the skin that gave the character more freckles than I liked.

I enhanced the color and contrast of the jewelery as well as added the knotwork ring -- using the ring from this sketch I had done: [link]

And for a final touch I used these bird brushes: [link] At least I think those are the ones I used.

I kept in mind the rule of 3's while working on the composition of this piece.
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So here is my requested feedback:

1. Does the shirt I painted look right? Is there something more I could do or should do? Does the pattern look too random?

2. The enhancements I mentioned, do they look right or do they stand out as painted against a 3d image?

3. Is the skin tone too brown in the shadows?

Any thoughts you guys have on these and other topics for improvement, I'd appreciate.

EDIT: I changed the hair a bit as per the comments below.