Russian soldier
My try at a soldier who's actually fighting a war for some time now and it starts to show on him 
Lowppoly version with baked normal and diffuse maps from Zbrush
2230 Poly
Lowppoly version with baked normal and diffuse maps from Zbrush
2230 Poly
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To start off, it's always nice to see some wireframe shots as well as the textured model, we want to see where those 2,2k polys are going
Some more specs are also nice, like the size of your diffuse!
To comment on the texture, his skin looks awfully pale, even though you are fighting a war, this is kinda extreme (some more redness would be great)
I can't really figure where the guy on the right got that grey junk on his forehead, looks really weird.
Continuing on the right side, his beard are supposed to be red-ish while the left one is brown, correct? What I see is wine-red beard on the right (intentional?) because I have never seen a wine-red beard before.
And If you look at the hairline, that just look, wrong (sorry, don't know how to explain).
I guess the small part of texture, should not be there.
Without the wireframe I can see right now that your model have a quite hard silhouette for the neck, might placing some more polys there/round it off more.
to pale you think? dunno, I'l give 'm a bit more color.
the neck will mostly be cover by the neck collar of his sweater.
about the beard you're right it should be plain black (maybe some darkgrey undertone) well the screen of my HP laptop sucks (running max), it has way less contrast and color then my mac (which i think is closer to what you're lookin at.
wire coming up.
texture is 2048x2048 will also make a 1024x1024 cause the model should go to the source engine.
I'm not the best person for this sort of thing but I did some quick PS edits to show what I mean
I aimed at caricaturized realism. He supossed to look as overstressed and derived of sleep.
you're right i could make them a tiny bit smaller, but i kinda liked the feel of this. dunno gives him an extra intense (bit insane) look.
thanks for the comment Shiniku
I think I have found where lots of your polys are but not really put to "good use", the nose, you should really consider to cut some polys on the upper end of it, right between the eyes. I supposed you wanted clean edgeflow, but in the low-poly version there is no real need for that many polys for such a small part of the head.
keeping in mind this is a favour for a friends mod. (having a whole list of mods asking for game characters, trying to keep work period as closely as one character/week. rig included.)
adjusted beard color and gave him a bit more color.
Alright so 2 things that you can do that will instantly make it look better.
1. the distance between the eyes is too wide, the rule of thumb is the distance between the eyes is the same as the width of one eye.
2. the neck is pinching into the head and then flares out like a cone, real necks don't do that, they go straight down, especially if its like a muscular soldier guy.
The sharp angles on the neck seem a bit strange to me.