[FINISHED] Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

Svartberg

Started a new project 
Subject pretty much sums it up. You all know her, you probably love her Well, I personally do, very much.



Started with a rough anatomy blockout


Did some MD simulation


And started sculpting some additional pieces, folds and embroidery.


Main focus of this piece would be the materials. This is going to be a fabulous brocade dress with a lot of uniquely sculpted embroidery. Man is it going to take a long time!







Cheers!

Pav3d

interesting to see how this painting translates into 3d, looking forward to it

Alex_J

definitely an interesting project. Very unusual.

I did a project that had tons of unique little engravings to sculpt as well. Once you get a process down, you just kind of zen out and it actually becomes very pleasant work. Have fun!

dGreenberg

The fabric details are already coming along nicely, @Svartberg! Really looking forward to your take on a Klimt piece. Good luck moving forward with this!

Svartberg

@Pav3d What a fun coincidence. At the time of my previous post I was looking at your Lordling piece. You did an outstanding job with the textures and the way you handled golden embroidery is one of the good quality examples I'm trying to achieve! 

@Alex Javor The intricate detail on your Durga artwork is looking very impressive! And the way you handled tiger fur is inspired. I'm definitely going to try doing short animal fur that way if I ever need to work on it!

@dGreenberg Thank you so much, Dave! 

I other news, my wrist is tired :Ь

Svartberg

Oh wow. I am seemingly done with the cloth.







Decided to cheese the armchair a little to save up on time.

Svartberg

Tried out a Keyshot quickie before work to get the general idea 

Svartberg

Certainly looks more like a person now ^^

Denzil_forde

 @Svartberg Nice work dude, looking forward to the finished result!

Svartberg

Rather productive weekend ^^ Tried out a cool XYZ/ZWrap workflow. 10/10 Will wrap again
Didn't sculpt the hair cause it will be made with cards and because the tool is already 150mil heavy ヽ(°〇°)ﾉ


@Denzil_forde Ey thanks man! I really can't wait to start working on the materials myself

tinyworlds

Awesome work so far! Curious to see how it will look like textured, the source artworks is one of my favorites

Alex_J

Excellent.

Did you use that embroidery plugin in photoshop for the patches?

CybranM

Looks great!

Svartberg

@tinyworlds Thank you! It's one of my favorites as well
@Alex Javor Thanks! Nope, all the embroidery is hand-sculpted, although I'm now curious about that plugin
@CybranM Thank you!

Svartberg

Now the fun part begins. (I actually still need to do the haircards, but I reeeeeally don't want to )

Svartberg

Started playing around ^_^

Alex_J

oh looking nice now. glad to see you plugging away at this. That's nice detail with the embroidery you put in there.

Svartberg

@Alex Javor Thanks mate! I'm kind of nearing the decent look, but still ways to go.

Tits

very interesting material work on this!
Looking forward to see more!

Svartberg

It's going slow AF, but it's going somewhere



@Tits Thanks Marie!

Joseph_Bramlett

This is a really cool project. Excited to see it finished. Im curious how you did the cloth stitching, i assume a IMM for ZBrush?

Joopson

This is so unique and beautiful. Really can't wait for more.

Svartberg

@Joseph_Bramlett Thank you! Which stitching are you speaking of? If you mean the general seams it's a simple brush, one of the many similar ones available online. If you mean all the embriodery triangles, those were extracted from the main dress and handsculpted with Rake/DamStandard brushes.

@Joopson Thank you! It means a lot!

Update time. Got some free time on my hands, so some more progress on the textures. 
The render is 4k on the large side, so you can view the image separately for better details

Pav3d

Textures are looking fantastic

Tits

Indeed fantastic work on those textures, looking forward to see the final result!

Svartberg

Fabric 95% done. Just some finishing touches on the larger drape and I can move on to skin
Some more screenshots meanwhile




@Pav3d @Tits Thank you guys so much!  

HarlequinWerewolf

Looking stunning! The fabric definition is gorgeous, wish i had your patience 

Svartberg

Started working on the face. Trying to do a cheesy edit of the lowpoly to capture the lost likeness. 



@LeahM Thank you! Patience is certainly helping. Both with fabric and the ever-crashing Substance Painter

Svartberg

Tried to match the face closer through color and lowpoly mesh editing.

Pav3d

Hey, I love this project! heres some feedback you could do about the face:

She has a slightly longer and flatter face with more pushed up eyes and eyebrows.

the lower part of her jaw bows out and comes into a point (see green arrow)

she has very soft transitions from the eyelid to the checkbone, the lower eyebag can be smoothened out more

the crease created between the eye socket and the lower eyebag can be softened out and angled down more (see the two pink lines)

youve got a lot of the eye shape nicely done but I would still angle the corners down a bit more (see blue lines and pink line across)

The shape of the eyebrow is more boxy and obvious, your eyebrows are currently very faded in comparison

The inner eye where the eyelid ligaments connect to the inner eye socket should be flattened and softened, you want to get that specular hit just on the inside of the tear duct. (see yellow circle)

I would put in the slightly opened mouth with teeth slightly exposed, and pull the bottom lip back, its slightly too jutted out at the moment.

In regards to the texture go a bit more crazy with the colours! there are lots of nice exageratted hues in the original piece which would be really nice to see in your interpretation

Looking forward to more!

Brian "Panda" Choi

THIS TURNS ME ON.

Svartberg

Long overdue update!

Thank you all for your comments and feedback. 
@Pav3d Thank you so much, this was very instrumental in fixing the issues!

I've resculpted the face, several times. Not 100% happy with it, but definitely more content with how it turned out. I've also retextured her from scratch because in my eternal wisdom I rotated the lowpoly slightly and broke all the hand-painted masks. Painted all of them from scratch and turned them into IDs. Overall I have the background and the haircards left.
And then I can move on to lighting and renders 

tynew

This looks great! I love the attention to detail on the fabric. Once you have some hair in place and some good lighting/shadows it should look fantastic. One nitpick is that the way you've textured her lower jaw area comes across almost as a 5'oclock shadow. 

CybranM

I agree with tynew, lower jaw looks weird. Great job on the fabric though, looks stunning

Crazy_pixel

WOW, what an interesting project, the fabric looks really awesome and the complete character is a real eye catcher

Svartberg

Been a long time!

Changed up the textures some more. Added some puffiness to the fabric inbetween the embroidery to add some weight to it, tweaked some tints to better unify the work in general. And started working on the hair. Did the eyebrows and the eyelashes first and then started on the hairdo. I'm currently working up the main hair mass and will add the breakup strands and general hair flow planes after.

Cheers, y'all

Svartberg

Ok, looking at the renders, I need to lighten the dress itself slightly. It's kinda dark compared to the rest of the scene 
Fixed now

Svartberg

Okay, I got the hair pretty much down. I'm planning to put her aside for a week to let her stew a bit and then take a fresh look at her after some time. If y'all got any criticism you'd like to point my way I'd be glad to hear it. Other than that there's mostly proper render and some lighting tweaks left to do. 

Camille_Meehan

She is delightful.

Brian "Panda" Choi

YEEET

Nimzo

Such a good idea to do this. Love that painting

Svartberg

She is complete!
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/e0BemP

Thank you guys so much for your tremendous help!

Pav3d

Congrats man she turned out great

Alex_J

a feast for the eyes

Ruflse

She looks great, I think you captured the feeling of the portrait really well 

itbeet

Dude! U are Sick!! 

seimax

purely insane work man !

dlz

Which technique did you use on the modeling of the pieces, and embroidery on the clothes?

Very nice project by the way! 

tinyworlds

Wow crazy good work!!