The Asherah project is a few years old and this is the latest incarnation with minor reshaping of the face, new materials, improved fur, and vastly improved hair. Asherah is a co-protagonist in my Crow series of epic novels that begin with Crow - The Awakening.
The base-mesh was created in Daz Studio using numerous morphs to achieve the shape I had envisioned for this character. This base-mesh was then exported to Blender. In Blender I continued refining the base-mesh, then added the fur and hair particle systems, created the materials, lighting, and composition, and rendered using Cycles. The textures for the materials were created/refined in GIMP and Photoshop and the final render was tweaked in Photoshop.