I have been working on recreating this.  Some of you helped me in the hair area.  Now I have a whole new set of problems.

Never mind the posing for right now, I understand some of that is off so Im taking a little artistic license with that, as well as still have some work to go.  Im also not concerned with her facial features looking like the painting.

Right now what I'm worried about is lighting and render settings.   I had a render setting that was going great for me - until I turned on texture filtering to see what would happen.  Then the stuff hit the fan.  I started getting dark marks on every render that looked almost like dirty/crazy shadows.  I changed the lights about 50 times to no avail.  I closed and loaded back to a previous saved point - same problem.  Finally I just saved the poses and reloaded the characters as a new file.

I do not have any clue what all the different render settings, material functions do - so if you care to try to give me an outline of what I should check and what numbers to input in order to achieve a look as close as possible to the original, I would appreciate it (postworking is going to be necessary but I'd like to minimize it).

Next Lighting.  I have tried so many light set ups my head is spinning.  If I need a new set I'd prefer a freebie suggestion from RDNA.  What lights - type of lights would you suggest?  What is this cast shadow business all about?

Any and all advice and suggestions will be useful, 
Thanks in advance.

I am:  aka Velocity3d