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Its in error used the highlight color as the darkest shading (look at the calves as well for another example)i agree with what you are saying aome parts around the shine look a little grey and on the chest.
why is that middle glowing, but lighing will get better in time. it did do a great job. but like me it can do better. it maybe did well cus its a simplistic style image. it was made for a completition for this site so was quite proud of the original. even used it as an MC for a gta rp server for a little while
from a quick review there are about 86 visual color layers in the red, need to get that down significantly, the shading is going for a source lighting photo realistic merge on a 2d cartoon. Tell it to limit the skin pallet significantly and blend only where the colors meet (anti-aliasing to stop squares like in the badge of your text).
Find an artists whos style you like and get your hands on the .psd file so you can deconstruct it layer by layer, then limit yourself (or the ai via your request) to that many layers.