cool idea. repairing her skin would help.

We usually take that skin make layers then Ctrl T Distort, warp until it looks right. Some of us even use liquify to put the texture in shape.
Then we make like 2 layers : one shadow, one highlights, create them as clipping and paint in them with black and white. One is overlayed the other is screened or we just play with the opacity of them.

Some use burn/ doge but that's a bit to permanent.
That reptile is so good!!! you could use it's spikes to make hair for your girl, a mohawk maybe

Not bad.

Everything is nice, I only wish you did something more creative with her hair = )

Will look at the hair as im not overally happy with this entry yet. Was done on a laptop using the mouse pad whilst burry eyed. Not the right environment to creat a work of art me thinks. Thanks for the comment.

The white dots need to glow..., good luck author..

Your must have turned my layer effects off will update when i get home.

You should find some avatar ears to make this more like an avatar.

I like your idea. Aside from the hair, I am having trouble with the white dots. They look like they are on the pic and not on the avatars face. Good luck.

Less opacity on the white dots would help.

Dots are too big... but nice effort.

nice work...gl

Needs a high res image.

Great concept, but the face is a too red compared to the neck, and the text should fill the image more, especially the cheek and neck area.

Nice idea, even nicer though it would be to make the face only by text. Create a compact wall text and clip the asian face to it.
Before that use some warp and displacement map on the text wall so that it follows the shape of her head. GL.

Excellent concept, but the face looks too red.

nice work author...gl