Needs to be seen full size for skin tone detials. Thank you. Happy birthday Jenny! I actually managed to get an image of your Winteria girl done for your birthday. Thank you and Shadownet for this lovely lady. Since Arthur (Adorety) and I have started sharing some technical details and the response is positive I will continue here. I was actually inspired by Arthur's rendition of her, he got the deep icy blue look I wanted. Several other postings of her blue fae look have let some warmth creep in. I wanted her to be an ice warrior. So I used light set number 5 of the nikisatez Skin Collection which had a pale blue light in the whiteish and pale tan mix that played up her blue skin tones. And a bonus of giving a blue tinge to her winter white hair. I used SSS set at 1.0 quality but I left the specularity at 0 as Jenny had set it and I left her skin tones alone to. I have learned that SSS has an added bonus of giving a bit of bounce off the skin and into the hair, helping to light it up just a touch from below, and thereby increasing the overall texture quality. I also experimented with SSS for her iris but found it turned her eyes too pale and I loved the dark detailed look Jenny had chosen. So I turned off SSS for her eyes. Her lips are really glossy because I reduced Gamma Correction to 1.1. Low values of gamma correction produce more gloss and also increase fine hair details (for some reason). Ok, probably bored you to death. I just hope you enjoy the image. Previous

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