Excellent feedback. Laughing Vulcan, I'll see what I can do to investigate your suggestion. Thanks for the help Fyrespirit. I've really been studying photographs of real people and it seems like the key would be a variant gray scale/lighting. I've noticed that the human eye in photos seems to have varying degrees of gray in them from a combination of shadow from the brow, cheeks, or the lower-nose bridge and an off-mattte white. I seem to find that the glossy eye look tends to come when you are using a flash to take a photo and not neccesarily twinkling on their own (unless of course you are depicting something in fantasy like a fairie). Am I on the right track?