In keeping with my focus on the human face and body I decided to do a self portrait. This is stage one of a very long, time consuming process. The first stage is what you see here, a digital base mesh. The next stage will be refining the base mesh. Then posing the facial expression. Then the texturing and detailing (blemishes wrinkles etc..). Then comes lighting and rendering. The plan is for this to be one in a series of four portraits. For me, achieving photographic realism with the human face and body is the ultimate challenge. I’ll be posting my progress on this page.