I've recently started sculpting a custom version of Frank Frazetta's "Conan the Destroyer". The original painting by Frank shows Conan fighting numerous enemies. I'll be limiting my sculpture to just the 2 main enemies directly in front of Conan. One of whom will have a broken jaw thanks to Conan's shield be rammed into his face. You can't see any of that in the painting, so I get to take some creative liberties with those details.

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Great project, Brian @brithebuilder
This is some serious 3D design work.

@gblair - It's all me George. I created the base muscle guy in 3ds Max back in the 08-09 school year as a class demo. The base mesh, without the muscle detail, was rigged in 3ds Max as well. I was able to use the old file as a starting point to get a good basic pose for this sculpt. It definitely saved a lot of time to not have to start a full character from scratch. ZBrush does have a male and female base mesh but I generally don't like using anything premade if I don't have to.

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Wow, Brian (@brithebuilder). Even more impressive to realize that you basically had to sculpt the figure from scratch in the software. You have to be an artist/sculptor as well as knowing how to use the software to make your creation. I thought the software would do more of the work for you. Really cool.

@gblair - Thanks George, yep, I'm getting back to my fine art roots. Digitally, obviously... but I went to school for Fine Art and Graphic Design and taught myself 3D when it was still new. I was fortunate to be starting this when it was new and no one had any actual expectations of what could be done.

@gblair - The fine art background and all that definitely helps. As far as the painting goes... it's the same as every other model you've painted, and you've done some fantastic paint jobs. It's just a collection of parts. If you don't like something, you paint over it...

Those hands look really awesome, my friend @brithebuilder!
Excellent progress!