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Not trying to get into the Top 20. Not promoting anything. Just want feed back. I think I'm getting better at this, and my wife is biased.

Thanks

You're improving-- she's got a hella good expression and it's a cute pic. Emily

Cool. I remember my husband calling me into the room to watch his Jedi character "shave" with the lightsaber if he left the game idle for too long. Pretty funny. If you are looking for suggestions... add a bright ambient glow to the burning end of the cigarette to indicate it's just been lit. Other than the pose looking a little awkward to sit in comfortably (but that's just me), the initial render looks great. Add a little cigarette glow in post work, clean up the mesh breaks at the joints, and a little shine to the eyes and you'd have a winner.

Thanks for the comments so far!!! You should have seen her knees and right elbow before I post-worked it. Ok, I see the crease in her knee that I missed, and the edges could be rounder. I'll try to add a glow from her cigarette. I almost put a light there for rendering but figured the glow from the sabre would overcast it. I'm using PhotoImpact 3.? for post so I'm not sure how I can add a good glow. The other crease in the Lil'Lani dress (Thanks Nerd, I was looking in the G's for its zip) needs to go, and the bumps on the hip. That dress had a weird mesh thing from the left breast down to the hip (see the giant shadow on her belt) I got most of it out but thought the last one looked like a crease. It doesn't How can I fix her right elbow? To get her hand close enough to her face, I wound up dislocating her elbow. Cleaned up the mesh in post but it still looks detached. Like its sitting to high.

Here's the Pre postwork pic. I need help with my postwork too. Can't draw worth diddly.

Glow on the cigarette tip should be fairly easy to achieve with just a "dot" of bright orange/yellow on a different layer in postwork. Vary your opacity setting on that layer until the glow looks relatively natural. Don't worry abou the broken mesh. Just postwork with a smudge tool or something similar.

I think it's really funny. Sort of a future Darwin Awards contender.

(laugh) Well the Darwin Awards would certainly explain what happens to all the unworthy surplus Jedi padowan learners that would be sitting around.

Gallery pic updated last night. Forgot to post that here.