"Cursed King" (CLOSED) (CLOSED)

Hi, my idea for this contest is to make a cursed (demon?) old King in his own throne.
I started collecting some images for inspiration and then started sculpting the head of the character from a base mesh in Zbrush. 
 

After blocking out the head, I went to Blender for setting the camera. I chose a vertical shot, with the camera at the bottom to give the king a haughty, power tone.
Then I started  modeling some part of the castle, which will be visible in the background.

I put all togeter in the shot to give me the idea of a final looking image.

Very cool work so far keep it up!

I went a bit further tonight, added details to the background and started texturing and testing the materials. I also tried the eye shader, which I don't mind at all.
 Finally I modeled the armor and did some rendering tests.

Wow, this is becoming quite intresting! I like where this is going.
The competition for this one is fierce.

I moved on a lot on this days. I sculpt in Zbrush the details of the head, like skin pores (this is the part of the pipeline than I don't like, but It have to be done in order to reach a good level of realism). I also sculpt the details of the sword. 

Then I create from the hight poly mesh the normal maps, ao and cavity for skin pores of the head.

Switched on Blender, I created the skin material and also all the others materials for the crown, sword and armor.

Finally I made some renders, I'm pretty happy with the result, but the background does not convince me, It's too clean, I have to work on it.

The eyes totally pop. I'm thoroughly enjoying this process.

Wow! This is really awesome. I love the texturing. 
Thanks for participating in the contest, and for sharing your WIP images along the way. Very cool.  

I improved the background, adding some others chains in differents distances from the camera to create more depth of the scene (thank to the depth of field).
I also created a simple candlestick, and I added some others little details to the castle part.

This is a render without materials

I created a render in black and white, and I have to admit that I don't mind at all

And this is the final render

Thank you all for the feedback, It was fun to work on this!

Amazing creation Teuz

Amazing. A work of art for sure.

That's incredible!!

Nicely done!!!