This started out as a very quick demonstration to a co-worker of how easy it is to create a mesh using zspheres. My initial demo took about 20 minutes. After my friend left, I couldn’t stop toying with it. What you see here took about 4 hours to make.
That is so cool. Saw the thumb and thought ‘Mr Spock’ … I still see some of him in the larger version. Might be fun to come back to the model when you’ve finished your gnome/elf, and try a characture of the old Vulcan. Nice
Now that you mention it, I definitely see some Spock in there, but I never even thought of him while I made it. 
I should do a Spock version, just for fun! 