Recreation of a 1896 poster in blender, both images of my recreation
When I first saw this poster it was billed as having been by Alphonse Mucha (who had a very similar style), but when I started looking closely at it I realized that it was not signed by him, and that led me to finding many more cool pieces by Privat-Livemont.
Privat-Livemont was a late 19th century Belgian painter who seems to be mostly known for his advertising posters (or more specifically, this poster). I couldn't find a consensus on his correct first name, but sources seemed to agree that it was either Georges, or Henri. Most of his posters have printers marks from Brussels, with a smaller number having been printed in Paris.
This probably is the most challenging of the style studies Ive done. Ive found that the semi-realistic neo-classical style is one of the hardest to replicate in 3d, and the bizarre shapes of the decorations were also very difficult to wrap my head around in 3d.
The lineart is all done in blender with grease pencil. the lettering was drawn as a vector in affinity designer before importing it into blender as a svg. This was rendered as 4 layers, (foreground, main lineart, colors, and an opacity mask for the background decorations) plus 2 color gradient layers I made in affinity photo, before compositing the whole thing in clip studio paint. The color layer had lots of post-process in blender's compositor as well
