1st image Ranking 2 to 2.5 Why: the image has great potential to be a maserpeace, (it even reminds me of someone. Lighting and pose are good. the pose could use a bit of cleaning up it has nice composition, but somthing small makes it imperfect, can't put my finger on what though, it doesn't look totaly natural. Textures need ALOT of work, the hair looks as much like a helmet then hair, needs transparencies, textures, and posibialy a seprate light on it for highlights. Framing has been done before, you should play with chamara angles to enhance the emotion you want to express. The emotion is confusing. (Because of the title I know what you were getting at, but if it had no title I wouldn't of know what you were thinking.) I do like the slight off angle think that's a good start. The flore texture should be crisp, not fuzzy, do to that, focal point is unclear and distracts the eye. Her eyes need somthing too, it seems to me that they have lots of potencial to really capture the viewer. Look in people's eyes and see how they look in low light, maby even a soft glow and a wet highlight. (eyes are wet and glossy on the serface not matted) work on this stuff and repost, then have a critique done again and repost again and you may acheve your 5s. I hope that you don't take this post the wrong way, because I gave you the same type of feed back I get from others about my photography work. (my job) You are a good artist, and have the capability to be great, but to do so, you have to give each image somthing that makes it stand out. Look throgh photo magazines, the 3D artist web sight I put at the top of this post and real people, and find what's missing, good luck and I hope to see some reposts soon. By the way please excuse my spelling I'm dyslexic and my spell check is down, and english is my 2nd language.) Best wishes, -Gabe-