If I can't do much better than what you see here, I was thinking about giving it some cuts and scratches to make it look more worn and used. I am experimenting with this right now but haven't found a technique that looks real yet. Not gonna give up, though. Cheers

Doesn't achieve the effect I want, but thanks for the suggestion anyway!

Just wanted to add my two cents to all the comments concerning cheating! Art in all forms is a means of stimulating peoples senses. People don't always care how it was achieved, unless they are stuck-up a**holes!! Most people want to simply see beauty, whatever their opinion of that is! Our goal in life as artists should be (in my opinion) to do our damndest to give that to them, and at the same time, stimulate our own senses and be proud of what we achieved, whether great or small!! As an example, I am new to the digital art arena, but used to draw quite a bit, and have been a musician for about 9 years, and most people think I am better at all of it than I myself, think, but either way, I am always proud of my accomplishments, whether or not it may be 'cheating'!! Cheers

Thank you both for the info. I'm sure it will be helpful, looks really good! Thanks Dall

Poser is great for certain people, but seems a bit limited for doing certain things. I wanted to do layering if possible because when my renders come up, it is hard to cut the background away from the character most of the time. I tried rendering without anti-alias, but doing that takes away the detail of the outer edges of the character. Anyways, thanks all for the help!