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If I were to make picture with one of these poses, what could I do to genre it up?

(Note that just "steampunk!" or the like isn't helpful, as I can think of genre names on my own. I just have no inspiration. I may not even use this pose, but she's got an interesting silhouette and light patterns.)

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Dragon helm!

I dunno, I'm in a dragon mood.

*runs away now*

Or you could make her a steampunk cyborg with gear eyes and things.

I like dragon helm, on the second; on the first pose, a pair of wings would be good. Dragonfly wings.

Oh, yes! Dragonfly wings would be excellent.

She is pretending to ignore the huge dragon behind her, which looks really offended.

Pointy ears, horns, wings... A crown or headdress of some sort? Some sort of SF-ish eyepiece (like google glass only larger/fancier) or earpiece.

Looking at a little flittering fairy or teeny dragon.

Wearing a crown/goggles/mask.

Cat or otherwise supernatural eyes.

The hair could become a tangle of cables, medusa style. Cat-5 for cyberpunk, pneumatic for steampunk.

The shoulder pose would support impressive epaulettes for a steampunk uniform.

Right hand pic is perfect for a vampire bite mark.

Eyes in shadow could be glowing (Magic? Or contact lenses with a HUD?).

Either one could be used for a winged character due to the interesting tension/pose of the shoulders.

Right hand one would be good for a tiny dragon or other familiar sitting on the shoulder, looking the same way as the model.

Antlers on the left hand one for a faun. Ornately decorated back swept horns (I'm thinking impala hung with lots of charms) would look great on the right hand one. Have you read Daughter of Smoke and Bone? The model would make a great Kirin from that book.

I was thinking Voodoo if you wanna go clichè, or what she reminded me of more, was pirate lady ^^, specially the left picture - or turn her into Michael Ende's grown up Momo ^^
https://www.google.de/search?q=Michael+Ende+Momo+film&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls={moz:distributionID}:{moz:locale}:{moz:official}&tbm=isch&gws_rd=cr&ei=SuT1VYz0OsGdygPJia6oDQ

Cybernetic implants and/ or circuit pattern on the face/ chest (would work especially well on the temples and neck of the right one). Silvered eyes or an ocular "borg" implant. Maybe try and indicate metal bones with a different colour (not necessarily steel grey) around the clavicle or eye socket. Cables for hair as someone else has already mentioned, or maybe just some sort of wire for a more constructed looking android.

Give her skin a pearlescent sheen and tack on pointy ears. Make her eyes glow in unnatural, magical colours (bright green, violet, yellow, etc.). Add sparkles around her to show some sort of magical effect in progress. Indicate tiny, almost invisible scales. Give her wings, bat, feathered, butterfly, dragonfly, whatever. I can totally see the left one being used either for a dragonfly winged fairy/ sprite (very Tinkerbell pose) or as a haloed saint/ angel. Make it look like she's under an illusion or is morphing between disguises by showing part of her as wildly different in look (maybe just one completely black "alien" eye and some clearly unnatural skin surrounding it. Could also have a wibbly boundary and sparkles if it's magically unraveling).

For a more modern, Urban Fantasy or PNR vibe you can take any fantasy element and just give her tattoos or silvery scaring and bite marks on top of it (shifter stories all seem to come with some sort of "claiming" bite these days). Or a vampire bite. Or maybe some weird sucker marks (pentapox!) Have her bedecked in occult charms or hastily scrawled arcane sigils (that she is not impressed with).

You can make anything "Steampunk" these days by throwing a few cogs in the background, having the character wear massive goggles on their forehead (they never actually seem to use them as eye wear) and having a generally reddish or brownish colour scheme. Have unnecessarily massive pipes cross her shoulders and connect to a heart/ chest mounted unit with a gauge on it. TBH I'm kind of "meh" over Steampunk these days and don't really have amny ideas.

Mix and match so she's a shiny skinned, glowing eyed, cybernetically decked out, haloed angel wearing goggles and sporting arcane sigils in permanent marker.

Mer her up! The right-hand pose would be great to show off gills on the side of her neck, and you could place fins or tentacles behind her, with fronds/shells woven into her hair and scales making use of that light on her skin.

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