Yeah thanks everyone. That's exactly what I was thinking while I was staring at it for 15 minutes before posting it up here. I couldn't find any way to finish it off. I'm open to ideas. Maybe you have a well suited render or something you could forward on to me?

As for the questions I was asked...I'll go in reverse order:

bfg: I think it's only about 13 layers of pure brushing, with only a white background underneath the brushing. And I only posted it up here to see what responce I could get because I knew it wasn't completed.

headshot: my site is technically up, but I haven't updated any of the content because I haven't had any inspiration to create and get some of my "free" work out there. The link to the site is on the image or you can follow this link: http://www.hxc-designs.tk

And I think that as a final comment, I should stop using blue in all my images.