[aprilmaeshowers]

someone please tell me what's wrong with this,, i can't figure it out,, she just looks .....Strange!!
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[_zaphod_]

hmm.. i think the mouth is just too big. also the diples or cheeks are way to accentuated. if youre trying to give her a devious look, you could probably make the mouth a little narrower (take off those little parts that curve down) or just make it not so curved in general. Thats what i think anyway.

[ten]

it has always bothered me that the eyes on 3d characters look composited. they don't really respond to the environment lighting, cast shadows of the lids or hair or any other scene objects. they always have this unreal luminosity/glow whatever you want to call it that looks cut and pasted into the scene. like there are seperate lights assigned to the eye spheres and the skin/face. and inevitably they look like glass, not tissue. the white of the eye is too white and luminous etc.

the face looks like a sort of monotone beige and a little too matte overall. some variation in the skin color [warm cheeks and nose and around the eyes, green/blue cools in other places to help model the form] and a specular map that makes the nose, forehead and lips a little shiny/wet would help break it up. you have a little bit of that happening in places now. it would help to know a little about the character to crit the 'look'.

and get some reflected light into those black shadows..

[neff]

i love that face, except for thoase eyes O_O
they scare me, looking so .. death, yeah...
what ten says.
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[jfrancis]

Theres' a lot to like about this, but there are also issues...

the eyes are not wet enough, the shadows need fill, certain areas need subsurface light scattering...

I think your best bet would be to photograph a real woman in a similar environment and take stock of the differences between that real photo and what you've done, then go from there, rather than simply imagine how to improve upon it.

[TimDavis]

Yep. Definitely the eyes.
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