The skin could use more mottling and noise. There's this dissonance I get from seeing a fairly clean skin with a butt ton of wrinkles that isn't jiving in my opinion.
The composition is striking, love the expression and subject matter. Colours are great too!
But what I think it's really hurting for is more tinkering with the SSS - both on the skin and the apple, possibly some more specular breakups/bump variation on the forehead.
The skin is looking a little plasticy to me. Add some sub surface with a depth mask to make the skin feel more life like. Also not sure whats going on with the hood. It definitely feels to wrinkled and layered
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The skin could use more mottling and noise. There's this dissonance I get from seeing a fairly clean skin with a butt ton of wrinkles that isn't jiving in my opinion.
But what I think it's really hurting for is more tinkering with the SSS - both on the skin and the apple, possibly some more specular breakups/bump variation on the forehead.
Keep it up!