these boots have seen everything

So, the hair is the beauty of the technical wonder called hotsampling using the Otis_Inf Tools for detail, and then IGCS_DOF for the depth and smoothness of the details. THE COLORS!! Thank you for picking this up. 😭 And to even go to the extent of picking out the colors!!

First of all, I am not one for editing in Photoshop, I don't really have the vision for what I can do with a shot in post processing, so I really try to make the image entirely in BG3 with lighting tools and ReShade.

So for this, I very specifically set up two pinpoint lights to shine in his eyes to reasonably match the color of the moth, partly because I like a uniform color palette so an image doesn't come off as too busy. I don't have a direct before and after, as this shot took me days of iterations to attempt, some with and without that light. Here's a without:

And this is adding the pinpoints, for comparison.

By the time I got to the shot I posted, I realized a lot of the expression was lost in shadow so it got brightened overall. In a slight tilt of the camera, it is a little more obvious

And there is an intention behind it as you have surmised, besides the samey color palette. To those who don't know his story, this is Eilistraee manifesting to him as a swarm of moths after tearfully venting his frustration with trying to join her clergy for over a century and being rejected for the crime of being a man (things that simply happen in canon).

The idea is that she IS there despite her apparent absence, and HE does manifest her will in the world, despite not having had the rank.

Seriously THANK YOU for picking this up. I mostly did this for myself but it is SO SO rewarding to know that you took a deeper look at this and found what I was putting down.