Spada e Scudo

Sword and Shield.
Well... don't ask for the meaning of the title... it's just that the weapon the woman is using is intented as an offensive-defensive weapon...
Originally, it was a trial image on full-body displacement mapping... lost a lot of time doing the maps, and finally dumped everything. A little displacement is still visible on the body suit.
I recovered this scrap by chance late yesterday night, and wondered if maybe something decent was to come out after all. The weapon is not as i wanted to be, because I messed up the UV map for the blade, so i fallen back to applying some strange material, and the effect, even if very far from what I thought originally, it's not so bad.
Straordinarily, the overall effect of the scene is somewhat closer to the picture in my mind... strange... I like the expression and hair of the woman... can't see very well, but the hair is luminose and reflective (a nightmare for the rendering!)... maybe I'm going to do a little more fine touching and rendering.
this render is without retouching a-part some luminosity correction.