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AfroCenTech said:

Here's a low poly ninja I did.
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Oh God why didn't anyone tell me I had to be Bob Ross for texturing?!     I mean  the model was tricky for me, since im still learing (then taking  way too long breaks) .  Nothing prepared me for how hard It is to visualize what you want  while looking at UV-islands.  Whats worse. I haven't used a paint program since high school.  trying Krita and Gimp.  Both of them may as well be alien languages to me. 

Im not even sure, if they even make tutorials on this sorta thing

Hey, I like the character. However, your UV layout could do with a lot of work! Ideally you could fit all of that into a single square texture by putting the AO on a layer set to multiply. Also, you'd be better off using a sharper brush and trying to keep to your UV islands a litle more. You should be able to scale up some of the UV islands in your texture quite significantly to give your model some extra texel resolution. Your AO map has a lot of weird shading areas- all those weirdly darkened/lightened triangles seem almost as if they were set to flat shading while the surrounding ones are smooth.

VIsually, the texture could use a lot of work above the flat colours you're currently using. Get just a little detail in there. I noticed the skin colour of the ninja's face seems to be bleeding on to the inside of his hood too- again, use your UV islands as a guide. Your model has potential, and it's certainly not bad for a near-first mesh. Just keep pushing yourself, spend some time on it.

I've textured my typhoon in a variety of ways. Without cockpit and landing gear, each plane is exactly 1000 tris, so I think I'm allowed to post that here. I've got a plain (ba dum tiss) texture, a Tiger striped one copied from the Bavarian Bronze TIger, a version based on the Battle of Britain memorial paint, then one each for the Spanish air foruce, Luftwaffe, and RAF from left to right. These are fully rigged and posable too.

Its been a very long time since I did any modelling, did these for practice.

I'm aware the 1860 Henry could be optomized a bit more.

Hi! I've recently made a prop for a test task, it's 993 tris with baked textures and light combined in one 512x texture  (due to task conditions). You can also find it (and rotate it yourself with marmoviever) at artstation, ofc  
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/89JZw

Final Project for my 3D Class - Dungeon Environment (Props within should be give or take around 1000 polys or less).
https://sketchfab.com/models/8e881c884104406fae307c5b84f088bf

A spearman. It's 1060 tris, though, so I don't know if it counts.


Video:
https://youtu.be/LB8siRQW34U

Polishing <3

Made a LOT of changes, now I have to figure out how to make the rainbow light shafts look magic-y