Skin Study 3a by theSea
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Another skin study - I just love maskedit's textures. DAZ|Studio render with some postwork in photoshop CS3.
The texture is from "Mask's V4 PureSkin #4" and uses the methods outlined in my skin tutorial available from the Dreamlight member's club.
Here are the basics:
The skin uses the pwSurface shaders - diffuse color is pulled to a light cyan. Diffuse rim is a dark cyan with the specular map applied in the color channel - rim size 0.61.
Specular is 60% glossy, 100% strength 66% softness with the specular maps applied in the color channel.
Bump is +/-0.1 @ around 25% strength.
Ambient occlusion is dark red at 25 - 50% strength.
Sub-surface scattering uses a control map from Dburdick's skinvue product in the color channel with a medium red color. IOR 1.29, scale 1.
Hair is 'Wild Hair' available at RDNA. It's rendered with pendragon's hair shader. I use a variety of colors in the diffuse, specular1, specular2, translucence and SSS channels to give this effect. The actual texture map is a very basic black and white - the shader does the rest. The really nice thing about Pendragon's latest release of the hair shader is that it has two anti-stropic highlight 'nodes' I use 1 at 85% glossiness with a medium color for the broad highlight and one at 96% glossiness with a very light color for the tight highlight. A very small amount of translucence and SSS (IOR 1.55) round out the technical specifications for the hair.
Lighting is Dreamlight's Studio Light Pro - 'fashion b' preset - high res, pretty much straight from the tin.
I hope you like her - as always any constructive critique or my work is most welcome. If you just want to say a few words that's fine too.
Comments (31)
janedj
Beautiful skin!!!!
jakiblue
fantastic work on her skin! Particularly the hands - they really stand out for me. I must work some more with that hair shader from pendragon, you've got it looking great.
lorddarkwolf
wicked stuff dude
bakapo
beautiful work! nice tone, texture and sheen to the skin.... very realistic!
nosawayne
Beautiful!
Kartika
Superb character!
ThomasMacCallum
I do enjoy the results of all your shader experiments, exceptional work.
Akhbour
Awesome work Michael! I'd like to have your patience for shader-tweaking!
flaviok
Textura perfeita, maginifica obra, aplausos (5)
Cimaira
fantastic work Michael! Maybe you should do a tut using Pendragon's hair shader too, I can never get it to work for me, lol great work on that skin, amazing realism!
CrownPrince
OOok let me get too it...This is an amazing piece of artwork...the amount of hardwork that went into it is amasing...And i can say that and i dont use D/S. Now as to what i dont like...Those shadows in her face.. Is there anyway you could just reduce those shadows?
maraich
Inspiring and instructional as always, sir.
CurtieBear
Wonderful image. Deffinitely sets the bar for excellents in skin "work".
shotgung0d
Impressive! Especialy so considering it's dark skin. Thanks for the tips and resources.
shazy
Well done, The hands are fantastic. Both the pose and texture.
Evanooh
Beautiful character! Hugs
ontar1
Beautiful skin, excellent work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
amirapsp
Beautiful skin textured beauty...Hugs
frogdot
Looks very realistic. Nice subtle pose too.
sim3344
Fantastic image,she looks real.Excellent work!!!
GARNETROSE
wonderfully done
Amethst25
She looks fabulous and I really like the tips.. Thank you for sharing :)
swjkie100
I really need to get off my arse and get pwSurface >< Cause I really want to get skin looking like this without spending a buttload ^^
Pankaj
Great work . The light really brings her to shine. Do really love the skin!!!!!!
sylki
Wonderful skin tones and lighting
theprojectionist
Lovely Piece
mhossack
The skin looks amazing. Great work!
Damian979
Jaw dropping is about all I can say. Just... wow.
evoluzione33
Excellent work!
thotto
Great skin colour and reflection, but I realise that this is sooo complicated! The lips look as if she applied some balm, shouldn't they be very dark red/brown ? And the left index finger is overbent. I know, hand poses can be a pain , but the least sloppyness in them is identified easily. Our brain must be hardwired to spot overstretched limbs and such.