Hi everybody! Well, my time to tackle the likeness
So far this is my second Zbrush project. This is a 2 000 000 plus poly mesh, made from Zspheres. It took me around 2 days to model with about 6 hours for texturing the skin (alright I’m a beginner and tried to find my way through pores making and so on !!!)
Anyway, do you recognize this guy ?
By the way, Thank you Portart & Monstermaker for sharing your work, it has been a great help for me. 
Dizzy Boy
Dynomite portrait! Dude that is GB. (Oops!! just saw your comment title so I guess it isn’t GB. Looks like him though.)
www.imdb.com can provide some quick images of any film & television stars.
You did very well for a second portrait in ZBrush. I have struggled with using zspheres in human heads and want to try many differant way before I settle down into what is best for me. I would love to know how many ZS you used in this piece. Perhaps you could post an image??
Critique; just a couple things come to mind. And none are deal breakers. This is a truly fun piece! Since you may be wanting to lean toward caricature and a less usual pose these things may not matter at all. The cigar distracts me a little as the tip is so symetrical and in general expands in diameter so much toward the tip.
I was thinking of GB until I saw old black man in yout comment title. I was used to seeing that entertainer looking me straight on but head tilted down just a little more and looking up at us through the top of his glasses. This I think was common as he was not a tall man standing next to other actors.
Who ever it is, he looks like a fun guy.
Hi Stephen,
Thanks for your comments but here is the picture I used as reference:
Hope it can help you.
Dizzy Boy
Hi Dizzy Boy, I dont know of the jazz man, but looking at the photo, you’ve captured his likeness very well.
lookin’ good!!!
Of course. With your name, jezz I should of figured that out. I think I can be forgiven as most non-jazz enthusiest think of him with his bull-frog on. Great job, you must of had a blast doing this piece!
Thanks for the pics. I finally settled down to the warrior bust tutorial in the Practical Manual last night. And used the zsphere as a primative as well. Went smashingly! Not quite as good as yours though. But that will come in time.
What a terrific program.
Pilou
Hi,
thanks for your comments. 
Stephen: practice, practice, practice, that the only way to be good at anything.
Here the color version of the picture:
Dizzy Boy
Great, Dizzy, but whats wrong with the hat 
Cheers
I see you have no trouble with hair either. You picked a great referance photo, tons of charactor.
Hi again,
Ilusiondigital, I did model a hat but very quickly and I was not creasy about it so I didn’t put it on…
Stephen, for the hair I used the Decobruch with a very smal draw size. It’s an amzing tool. The trick is to use diferent tone of thez same color to make it look real (or almost real ).
Dizzy Boy
Hi Dizzy,
somewhere…I think in the tutorials forum Aurick posted a way to work with gradients or two different colors in z2…it’s a little different than it was in 1.55b.
Anyway it’s a great way to do color variations for hair other than using a multicolored texture with the deco brush.
Cool version of Dizzy, quite appropiate viewing for me as I have a little Coltrane playing in the back ground at the moment.