If you didn't know, sorry to go Star Wars nerd on you, but that's actually a pretty important character in the Star Wars Expanded Universe. Mara Jade Skywalker. Reading some stuff about her and looking at other images might help you out with refs, even though it's a bit late on in the project. If you did already know, then…
Nice job, but you really need to check proportions on the thumbs, they're really to far back from the other fingers and make the hands look ungraceful and if you plan on putting a lightsaber in her hand your might be up for a nasty surprise. Give her hands as much love as you did her face, it adds so much to the global…
Yeah, the lightsaber could probably be done with 2 cards (overlapping in an x shape), both set to additive. edit: here's a little proof of concept. It works fine in udk, but doing the same thing in marmoset looks bad, since marmoset rendering is quirky. (specifically, the problem in marmoset is that the black areas on the…