I think it is truly great what you are doing to help the band. But I honestly think this image is simply too dark. I also do not see the connection between it and a band named "Wasted Promise." I don't see how this image is going to help you promote the band.

Original Comment I think the pose is very good and I do see the connection between the image and "Wasted Promise" if you're going for the "girl gets caught up in damaging lifestyle aspect". The image is very dark, so it's hard to make out what is going on in there. As a suggestion, position one of the point lights low and deep, towards the ladder(?) go for a deep red (you know, seedy) and play with the scale and intensity. Edit - if it's a background it may work... I assume white text?

it's great that you're doing this for your friends, and i'm very sorry that they have to leave and deliberately put themselves harm's way. so, to understand, are you going with a the girl being the promise and the sewer being the wasted part? that's what came to mind when i saw this. i like the cammera angle, her dark hair, and stone and metal textures. what type of music do they play? i ask because with all that darkness, she's an awfully tan girl. i think she'd look better and be more visible skin even brighter and luminous (though not more pale) than the figure in "Underground." certainly, i think the beautiful smoothness of that figure's skin would look great here. but that might give it a sort of goth look they might feel clashes with their music. i also think you might refine the pose a little by giving her fingers and hands more individual poses, giving her face a more expression in her mouth, eyes and brow (maybe more plaintive?), and a more dynamic relationship with the viewer/camera. maybe a gesture or something that has a little more of a "promise." right now, the light focuses on her face and hands, so i think they could both be a little more dramatic. iirc, you once said you were new to poser 7? if that's the case, i highly suggest trying ibl. just to say, if you're not matching a background image, you can use any image or none at all as the source of the ibl. start with the poser preset ibls, and tweak them to your liking. you can change their image in the material room. the poser 4/ppp global lighting sets recreated what one ibl can achieve. and if you can brave it, these scenes with low lighting and a spot or two really, really look gorgeous with skin shaders. this is a very good image, and i'm sure your friends will be really pleased. if you don't change a thing, it will help promote the band. if you do choose to do more work on it, let me know if i can do anything at all to help.

I can't really make any comment because the image shows too dark on my monitor. My monitor shows images darker than normal, but this one is REALLY dark, too dark for me to see. :(

I would like brighter lighting, but on the other hand you're going to print over it (hopefully in white) so really this is fine for that. A little torque on the hands and fingers would add some potential for action that you might like also. I don't know if you're looking for suggestion for layout, but ... I'd suggest right-aligned text, placed mostly in the right side of the page, with no left side justification, and see if you can get the line breaks to follow the line of her body with some small overlap here and there.

Is the lettering going to go down the right side of the page? And what font are you going to use? I'm not trying to be pushy, but Abbadon might look good. I think you have made a great start to a really arresting poster.

I like this. Is text going to be added actually in this image or above it? It is perhaps just a little dark but of course if this is going to be changed to CMYK it may well change it a little.

Very lovely work. About the darkness , the others told you. ;) I like her expression and pose. Great work.

I love the expression and pose. With text (in bright tone) it will be more powerful.

It is very dark on my monitor but I guess you'll have to see how it looks when printed. Sometimes they can come out very different. I like the pose and atmosphere in general. Looks like it'll fit the purpose :-)

I find it very dark as well, but from what I can see, it looks good. If you find the lighting in Poser a problem due to the prop, could you maybe adjust it with postwork? But then again, as Karen said, maybe it will print brighter anyway. Hope your friends stay safe while they are deployed.

I'm sure your tired of hearing it my friend, but it is dark. I have a hard time making out the details. From what i can see it all looks good, just would like to see a "hair" more of it. perhaps just lightening up the skin, if you do postwork with a faint dodge tool on the skin and vague highlights might do the trick.

Well, dark or not, I think you did a good job with the image. Especially with the lighting constraints. Lou.

The leftmost area, the wall left of the vertical pipe, distracts a little from the rest of the image. It's a bit too bright. Maybe you have a look @ how it looks with an additional negative spotlight "lighting" this certain spot. (setting intensity to a negative value in poser) The figures left hand fingers are spread in a unlikely symmetric manner. Usually the angle between digitus secundus and digitus minimus starts to increase first. While spreading the fingers they keep their greater angle for quite some time. "Usually" means a hand used in most common ways. Varies with different usage of the muscles. Otherwise concept and partitioning are looking very good.