In reality this is a small 1.75in turtle statue, its made of marble (or something very like marble). I wanted to capture the soft shapes and harde edges present in the original statue while also creating convincing materials.
I did my best to accuretly represent the orginal, I was going to use photos for the texture maps, however after some testing this process was to time consuming and I instead made materials/textures from scratch. Although they are not perfectly accurate to the original statue, they share enough qualities to be convincing.
I should aslo note I work in PBR which really helps to capture the material present in reality and display them.
-Chris