"Beethoven is often portrayed as this heroic figure that resembles more of a greek god than a human who dedicated his life to music. To reconstruct his face I only used his life mask and also a bust that was made by the same person who made the mask. He also had a death mask, but due to his illness, he lost so much weight that the mask is almost useless for this purpose."

"Chopin was a very introverted 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!"

"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."

"Took 6 hours for each frame to render. The problem with light-colored hairs is that it takes 2-3x the usual time to give a clean result.No turntables for this one."

"'The worst enemy to creativity is self doubt.'
Couldn’t come up with a caption, also can’t argue with that quote!"

"This was one of the more puzzling facial reconstruction I’ve worked on so far; comparing the death mask, life mask and the paintings, it’s kinda hard to connect them to one person.
Mendelssohn had two life masks made in his late twenties that one of them is at “Scottish National Portrait Gallery” and couldn’t be easily found on the internet. Thanks to @oxanatheharpist and @kasperschonewille for sharing with me their photos of the life mask and other helpful information."

"Had so many requests for this one, hope it lives up to the expectations."

"Übermensch"

"The mid-19th century was the time that photography started to become popular throughout Europe and paintings, life masks, ... began to fade. Daguerreotypes were very expensive and only the wealthy could afford but so were the masks and paintings!
Luckily there are many photographs of Brahms on the internet, even from his teenage years! I tried to picture him in his thirties (around 1860)."

Schubert wasn’t famous during his lifetime and probably couldn’t afford a highly skilled artist to paint his portrait, most of the portraits of him were done decades after his death when his music finally started to make it to the mainstream. All I could find as a reference was just one photo of a cast impression of his life/death mask, unfortunately the original mask is lost or destroyed in the market. I wish at least the private owners of the cast were more generous to share some pictures of it, but I guess that’d be too much to ask!

"This would be the last of the Romantics series and transition to the next series “Women in history”.

"There are a couple of daguerreotypes of Schumann that were taken in 1850 but all deteriorated and in terrible quality so I tried to search for some paintings of him made during his lifetime. It was really interesting that most of the paintings that I could find looked almost nothing like the man in those photos (maybe just the hair). Even more reason why paintings of that time aren’t trustworthy references!"

"Each frame took 20+ hours to render, the shirt’s material was too expensive because of its transparency, and the mesh lights in the background made it worse!
Also finding high quality reference images for this one was surprisingly hard, other than a few close-up shots, all I could find was some blurry images."

"I wasn’t very happy with my first portrait of #GraceKelly mainly worked on the color map, plus some tweaks to the skin shader and a new lighting setup."