Monalisa oil free

[rept0r]

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/1699/mona2is.jpg

Tried to get as close as possible to the actual masterpiece from Leonardo da vinci, keep faithfull to elements like the sfumatto technique he developed, get it to look like a paint, photoshop helped a lot, the background is a mix with the paint and a 3d landscape i modeled on zbrush.
c&c welcome, always a pleasure to post here.

[TheDirtSyndicate]

its a cool piece, really good, i like. way better than i could do for sure. especially considering the fact that i dont have a wacom. hahah

a couple things:
her face kinda looks....strained....like she's flexing the muscles in her eyelids and around her lips. kinda odd.....davincis face looks way more relaxed somehow.
and overall i think the whole thing looks a little soft. the best way i can explain that is when photographers put those gauze filter lenses on cameras to soften up their subjects features...feels like you painted that effect. there just aren't enough/any hard edges in this.everything feels too soft.
like the sleeve on the left side (her right), in davincis piece, it has a very crisp look to it. here, you've softened it quite a bit.
and last, i dont see any trees in your piece. maybe its just my interpretation, but i think theres lots of what are supposed to be trees back there that you turned into stone.

for those interested in seeing the original for comparison:
http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/wm/paint/auth/vinci/joconde/joconde.jpg

aside from that , i have no other crits.

[take²]

a realy great work on texturing and modeling :xpld:

the only thing i find a little bit strange is the fabric layer on her head (dont know the engl. word for it). he`s a bit to far away from her hair.

nevertheless envy-worth :^^:

[Saimon]

Hey, nice work. Would you mind posting some of the clean renders up. Im just intrigued to see what the mesh looks like.

Cheers

[Charlie_2.0]

Heh, DaVinci could have used a wacom as well :P

[rept0r]

complete2 feeling like a paint was the objective but you are right about the background i didnt came far enough in it only one day working on it, i had the conscious it had trees but not the time to make them =\, about the paint itself there are quite lot of photoshoped versions on the net, here is the most reliable i found on my research about the paint.
http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/2415/monacerto0re.jpg
take 2 there are lots of flaws its kind a nice play around and find them you are the first to point this one =]
Saimon tnx here is the a wire and a wip shot before comp.
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/7650/wiremona0fe.jpghttp://img95.imageshack.us/img95/5984/start16hp.jpg

[take²]

i take my wrong crit back =) on your ref is it done the same way, sorry.
as i saw it yesterday on cgtalk, it first looks like you`ve used alpha maps for the hair and give the first one to less transparency. is it understandable? :bashful:

but davinci is dept :^^:

hope we`ll see our soccer teams in the final again. reveeeenge :cheerleader:

[rept0r]

take thats right =] the left side hair had to be a bit reworked on ps as it didnt came out as it should, lets see about the game, when comes to soccer can be sure we are in the finals :P