Yes, Poser generally casts a red ambient and/or undertone to skin when using any Anglo skin texture. There are some good African-American skin textures but you still have to modify your shaders if you use any default skin propducts. After looking at this on my monitor at work I see that the skin tone is more purple than it was at home. Every display is different. I *might* go into Photoshop and see if I can pull back the purple saturation slightly.

Her piercings were intentional, to give her a bit of that sexy alt appearance, but I didn't want to go overboard. I also didn't want to go crazy with the "spiders", although there are some awesome spider things that I have seen done - so I kept the whole spider thing down to a minimal brooch... which is kind of humorous, as if she's on some kind of diplomatic mission here, and not amongst her spidery worshippers. Which makes the pose interesting too. I leave it up to the viewer to decide the circumstances around this pose - which is something I try to do in most of my portraits.

And I am surprised nobody has done Xull'rae in golden toned clothing before. Yellow/orange/gold is a major complimentary color to purple. But I had to make all her jewelry silver so that it wouldn't compete.

Aye, enjoy the gift and post it to your journal and you can submit it to any of the Drow or Xull- clubs you want, or give me the directions on how to do that.