D o m i - Thanks! I made planes in zbrush and sent them to keyshot with bridge and applied a neutral light material to them. Those were essentially my lights, I think I turned my hdri down to 0 or close to it. Then just moved them around until I was somewhat happy. I’ll post an image below that shows the setup a little bit.
RintyAlam - thanks! though which pirate character are you referring to?
DrBo42 - Thanks! I always welcome critiques, though for this head I did double check placements a few times and was confident with how facial landmarks aligned to the reference. I think maybe the lighting and shadows around the eyelids make it seem different.
Anyway, here is a glimpse at how my lighting was setup.
beautiful…I am guessing you already have plans to do changes but in my opinion some little changes you could do is make eyelashes bit bigger * “big, bold and beautiful a sign of femininity” and R eyebrow starting shape is bit lower not following the base base supraorbital ridge and also may be add some more bulge in the eyebags just a lit bit more.
