Realistic Portrait - Training - Critique/Feedback
polycounter lvl 6
Hey folks, a little nervous to post here, but I guess we all started at a noob level at some point. I created my very first realistic(ish) human portrait these days, trying to figure out xgen/hairrendering/and rendering in general along the way. My gosl with this was to get to know some workflows in regards of hair creation and realism in modelling. I will smooth the next head and also add SSS and normal maps etc. (Couldn't figure out yet how to add the SSS map, wich I did draw actually, but well). Soooo...I just wanted to post it here and ask for some feedback. Aboout the anatomy, the style, the hairrender. Maybe someone knows some good tutorials about haircreation, headmodelling, and also rendering (here with mental ray). 
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Can you post just the sculpt? Most of your big issues are stemming from there.
Hair right now reads REALLY metally, which shouldn't be the case, and I'm not getting that clean anisotropic banding I would expect from game hair. Reads more like distressed silk than hair, atm.
Here are some more perspectives of the sculpt:
About the Hair: Yeah I haven't figured out how to modify the default xgen material.^^" I did play around with the settings according to a few youtube tutorials I found, however for the render with mental ray I guess I need to change the material a bit more or change the mental ray settings. Not sure what you mean in regards of the banding though? Do you mean the pink part or the stubbles? I was aiming for this rather straight hairstyle. Looked at some more punk/straight hair/cyberpunk hairstyles. But maybe it is hard to read because it grows from the middle instead from the side, as one usually sees? Maybe it helps to make it messier, too.
What were you using for a head reference?