I started studying facial anatomy three months ago and set myself a little challenge.
I created 5 speed sculpts of heads, portraits. The main goal was to capture the character’s essence, study their facial features, and understand their ethnic identity.
I spent a lot of time drawing analytical sketches of portraits.
Second goal was practice. I spent many hours on Mads Mikkelsen (20-30 hours maybe), about 3 hours on a girl.
Al Pacino was the first portrait where I practiced facial anatomy.
Samuel L. Jackson - 5 hours;
Smith - about 4-5 hours;
Nicolas Cage - 4-5 hours;
For rendering, I assembled the scene in Maya and created a simple material for rendering in Arnold, then set up the lighting.
I used Zbrush and Maya.
I didn’t use base mesh.
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