Aaah… Hollandsch Glorie! 
Nice paint-effect, and I like the hair too. Shouldn’t his nose be bigger at the and? I remember anonther self-portrait with quite a fat nose… Perhaps he had some booze… :lol:
Very COOL Bas!!! 
Ooh I love this render style! How did you do it? Any chance of a zscript.
…there is Brush !
Bravo 
Here is another painted 2.5D head of the same object. This one is painted in two layers with a brush made from a brushstroke from Rembrandt. Using this alpha with the Deco Brush, a little Z-add in combination with a material with some cavity, there is a lot of fun to get.
here’s the brush
…brush indeed! 
Just something to test a shader and some deformations
Nice test Bas. I really like the lighting and shader on it. Looks to me like you could use this many ways
Oeps! That doesn’t look healthy! 
Like the image though.
May I ask about your background/education? It’s very inspiring to see a fellow countryman produce such stunning images…
Tartan, I’m always surprised by the things we can do with ZB. Mostly I start doodling around and something comes out of it. Most of this kind of things are just a short time on my HD, after the fun I delete them.
Plakkie, my background/education, I started painting after I was born, only the academy was a short delay 
ZBrush branch, the leaves are just a plane with an alpha.
Wow, nice branch Bas, can you tell a bit more about those leaves for this Zbrush Newbee? The bark is a texture I guess? Made that yourself?
I would say: on to a fir tree!
Nice work, very Audubon!
Patton
Beautiful and Patton is so right.
Plakkie, here is a script how the branch was done.
Playing the script it will ask for the texturefiles.
The first to open: ZwarteElsBastText.jpg
Second: ZwarteElsBastAlpha.jpg
Last one: ZwarteElsblad.jpgleafscript.zip (209 KB)
Fun script Bas Taught me a few things
Lots of spiderwebs around:-) I found some time to play around with some shaders, composed in photoshop. I used about 6 renderings.
Attachments
Hey Bas,
I like the creep aspect here. But are you sure he’s a spider type? He reminds me of a race of beings thet were in ummmmmm /e tries to think. I think it was the Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. This image raises up nostalgic feelings for me ;)
…maybe
Great combo!; ZB is too powerful man!! :lol: wit all the recepies and stuff