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

Chopin was a very introvert and private type of person, he has only two confirmed photographs, which one of them is deteriorated and hard to read anything out of, the other one was taken during the time that he was seriously ill and his face is swollen and disfigured.
Also in his lifetime Chopin had his portrait painted and drawn by a variety of artists, but the problem with most of them is that they’re more flattering than realistic.
So all that I could rely on was his death mask. After death all the muscles lose their tension and all left is a disfigured face.
I did my best to breathe life into it, don’t know how close this is to what the man actually looked like!