Modeled in Cinema 4D, textured in BodyPaint and ZBrush, rendered in Cinema again with standard lights. Cinema's own Hair module has been used for adding the beard and hair. I used the Vreel Skin Shader for the skin. I didn't do much in Photoshop, apart from minor color correction, a slight DOF blur and grain.

'Portrait of a Silent Man' has been chosen by BallisticPublishing to feature in the 7th edition of Expose - The Finest Digital Art in the Known Universe. This image has also won a cgArena.com Excellence Award [link] and was named 'Image of the Month' in the French C4D community forum [www.frenchcinema4d.fr].