Some thoughts.
No time for text.
Hope this gives you some ideas.
Ahhh, thanks for the edits, guys! I'm still absorbing a lot of the details, so I haven't gotten around to fixing absolutely everything. Here's where I am after today:
Stuff I did:
-added colored reflections
-various shading fixes. Tried to imply front/forward light more explicitly
-messed with the hair a bit
-started adding detail to tentacle in lower right. not sure if I'll go that direction.
-added background(?)
I'll admit the BG was a last minute attempt to make it less empty. I'll probably go back to the drawing board on that one. Re: background/tentacle contrast, I was intending for the tentacles to not pop too much so they won't take away from Samus. If I can't make this work I'm not opposed to switching things up later, though.
As for the face, both edits gave me some ideas, but aren't really what I'm pursuing stylistically. Beginning to think I won't be able to make the profile view work. :U
So, next to do list:
-address hand edits
-keep fixing face
-figure out the friggin' background
-properly shade the red bits
update:Still playing around with the background, still no idea what I'm doing. Decided against "textured" tentacles, at any rate- the details were drawing too much focus away from Samus.
Starting to feel like I'm spinning my wheels on this one and going nowhere. Once I fix up the red armor and her face a bit more, I think I may have to call it done.