Madrugada Eterna is a soul guardian; she has tattooed her skin with a multi-dimensional map of the journey she must make in order to move on to the next level of existence.

The figure (a commercially-bought model), foreground vegetation, water and rocks were all rendered in Poser 7. A 24-hour render, thanks to the water material, but worth the wait; this is the best water material I've ever created in Poser. Bit puzzled by the little square artefacts, but fed up with looking at it now.

I've done my usual trick of separating out the render into individual layers using object masks, so I could paint between, behind and in front of the different elements, although they were all rendered together initially. The background is a section from an older piece of mine, produced in Vue 6 and Photoshop.

The tattoos were created with some amazing free Photoshop brushes from Deviant arts called Clockworks by Chrissy79.

Hope you like it!

Yes, yes, I do know about refraction; I'm aiming for something more like an illustration than a photograph. Yes, she is a Vicky, but she's not (quite) naked, nor is she in a temple, and she in fact has TWO swords.