Thanks for the KUDOS, good eye on the face. I've tweaked it some.

Glad you like it.

Thank you George.

Thanks for the compliment Rob. After much deliberation over the levels and hues of the color, not to mention the overall brightness and contrast of the image, this is what suited my eye the best. Glad you like it.

Thank you still26, for recognizing my intended effect of an "old master's" painting. Unfortunately this morning I do resemble the "old" part of "old Master."

I Appreciate it.

Gracias amigo.

Thank you.

Thank you George, there's a lot of time in this one. After the modeling it took 30 minutes to render the scene at this resolution, and that's on a machine running at 5GHZ with a high end graphics card.

(to the author) Oooh an overclocker!! I'm at 4.8 with a 7700K on air. Haven't tried 5GHZ. Just plopped it at 4.8, fired it up and it's been rock solid ever since. Only got 24GB and need more soooo bad but it's so damned expensive. I moaned when I had to spend $98 for 16GB, now it's like double that.

(hi George too)

Thanks skyangel.

No the models depicted here are not standard with CC2018. I made each and every one of them. My SBS shows the general way they were created. If i were to go into a detailed step by step, i might as well have written a tutorial. No external sources involved. I have been a member here LONG enough to know the rules. Please, if there is anything I can do to alleviate any doubt let me know.

@moderator, do you still doubt the validity of my modeling?

Thank you for noticing the lie of the shadows still26. That was an integral part of my thought process.

Thanks Ms.Z, grats to you too.

Come on man, you can render some 3D too. Especially on the rig you described.
Thanks for the congrats. Give it a shot.

George55 !, mi old amigo, thank you for the compliment.

Still26, making 400knots down low is breath taking. Thanks for the positive feedback.

Well thank you, the theme say's make something astonishing right?