Sculpted and textured in ZBrush
Painted the color map in Substance Painter
Rendered in Maya with Arnold

Liszt was one of the few composers of the 19th century who lived a long life, and since he was very famous during that era (some call him the world’s first rockstar), there many photographs of him on the internet.
The photographs that I used as reference were taken in 1858 by Franz Hanfstaengl.