A portrait of a man who has lived a hard life. This started as a sketch and turned into a complete portrait because I was having a ton of fun with it. Tons of room for improvement but... gotta keep movin'. ZBrush, compositing in Photoshop.
DWalker, Interesting, thanks for the comment. The eye color and highlight is actually based entirely off of a real photograph that had the same lighting as the portrait. It's probably the least doctored part of the whole thing and most faithful to my reference. Not sure what's causing the dissonance for you, but it just…
The rectangular highlights in the eyes feel much too bright and too large. The placement is also odd, being much closer to the center on his right eye, which would only occur if the light were extremely close. The double highlight is also something most portrait photographers try to avoid (the second one is usually caused…