She was only supposed to model a ponytail.

While working on promotional artwork for my free Hana Ponytail morphs, I fell in love with the pearlescent, sea-inspired look. I couldn’t find the right environment map, so naturally I ended up with nine spotlights. At some point, you stop counting and start negotiating with the shadows.

Meet Thalune: copper hair, pearl-tinted skin, and considerably more lighting experiments than originally planned.

Rendered in DAZ Studio with Iray. Custom skin shading and manual postwork.