Well this was interesting!
I can say I learned so much sculpting this and it really was so much fun even tho I textured 100 million scales by hand…
After getting some much needed sleep I attempted to work through some issues I was experiencing with node wrangler and adjusted the lighting and focus a bit for another render attempt. Overall im pretty happy with this attempt but more so because I was able to work though the frustrations I was experiencing last night… I dunno maybe my second render looks identical to my first ?
OK OK last one! I gotta move on with my life I cant just keep moving around the same 3 light sources. I also added in a few rocks and trees I downloaded from this group.
That’s why I almost always cheat and just use a HDRI for lighting. 
This looks wonderful CeenStars! 
well done ceenstars!
