Desdemonia 001

My latest piece of work.  I was trying to get some designs embossed on her skin to show up.  I used a program called ShaderMap 2 to create normal maps for her skin and used them create the appearance of designs on her belly and forehead.  She has one on her upper chest too, but it's covered by the sleeves thing she's wearing.  I may have to try something new with my idea, as the bumpy parts didn't come out looking quite right, and it kind of made the skin a little bit too bumpy I think.  I will have to attempt to use the regular normal maps for the skin, and then make secondary displacement maps that are JUST the designs I want on her skin, and merge them together as a single normal map in the ShaderMap 2 program.  So, as this isn't quite right yet, I thought I'd share the progress so far, and eventually I'll go back and work on it again.

Workflow:  DAZ Studio > ShaderMap 2 > Reality > LuxRender > PhotoShop