Thanks so much once again for joining the Unique Portraits challenge, All entrances are awesome and out of this world...
Congratulations to the Winner: Emmie-Enchanted @EmmieJ
and 2nd and 3rd place: CaseAndMe @CaseAndMe
Shapes n Shadows @Shapes_n_Shadows
I will be sending the prizes ASAP...and I hope you join me on the next round.
What we are seeing here is rather interesting in that while we are able to supress the shine here and bring through truly organic textures, Fluks yet expresses its native tendencies in the photoreal depiction of the eye (and in other renders: eyes.) So it does not ruin the image with a synthetic look but produces something new: an actual combination (not blending) of textured painting and photorealism.