Assassin Afro (Stylize Character Wip)

I love her face and expression but get the feeling it just doesn't fit with her assassin class. She looks too nice to be a murderer. Or she's a very diabolical assassin?

Pretty nice work! I think you definitely did justice to the original design, no matter whether she's an assassin or a samurai

Really awesome work here. I don;t see people pull off characters with afros really well so this is awesome to see. Nice clean topo. Solid work.

Making hair is tough, making afro hair might be even tougher. The problem here is that you treat them like non-afro hair, too smooth.
I don't know if you want to stick to sculting the hair but if you want to try to use alphas maybe this tuto will help you
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/a2wPL

The hair look good with the final lighting

If I may give you one last advice, this one about character presentation to boost even further the "wohw effect".

Add a subtle ground so your character has a stronger presence into your scene (unless it flies). Some character artists just add shadows, simple and efficient, like the Elf artwork from Vahid Ahmadi for instance.

And if you have time, you can even add a few details about the surrounding environment (very subtle) for more story telling and context, like the artwork "Wild West Challenge - Native American" from Nikita Svechnikov.

That render test looks really, really good! I also find that adding a groundplane would be a neat idea. Great job!