More experimentation... This time I added a bit of glitter to the hair shader to get some highlights. This works, but does give the hair a bit of a greasy appearance. I pulled back the style to show off more of the expression. This helped alot to get rid of the ribboning hair effect. It takes away from some of the fun of the previous image, but produces a better portrait. I wanted to show off the eyes. To give the character more...errr...character, I slightly crossed the eyes. This gives her just a bit more of a real girl appearance to my eyes. I think it's the very slight imperfections on otherwise model perfect characters, that helps the brain to be more accepting of the character as having some sort of life. People asking about the lights. I've been working with Elianeck lights for Iray v.1. I rarely use the HDR environments (although, I would like to get better with them). I find that the 2 studio light set is a really good combo for bringing out skin texture. And, I plan to buy the new v.3. I'm sure that I could make up my own lights...and probably will. But, the Elianeck lights are really handy for basic lighting. The best tip I can give you for using them is: Set your Render Environment to "Scene Only." Then, move the lights where you want them to best effect. These are set up for close lighting. The Llight is your key and fill light. The point light is what gives the skin those nice highlights. So, they aren't what you want for a big daylight scene. But, then again, I have yet to get really decent results with a full skydome or sun sky setting. I imagine others are a lot better at that. I could use a really good tutorial on that.