[WIP] Hand painted tent

shrogg

After seeing a bunch of really inspirational threads here I decided to get around to doing something myself, so today i painted this tent.
this is my first proper go at hand painting anything significant so I would love some criticism on this piece so that i can make it more presentable.

Its a low poly tent/hut thing if you couldn't tell

Latest update:

Fenyce

Look sweet so far.
I'd improve the wood thats directly on the tent (connecting the cloth) and to be true, I first didn't recognize the door and ask myself "eh? where to enter?!"
Maybe do it out of a diffrent colored clothpiece (like completly blue)
And maybe you could add another wooden beam holding the cloth up, but a horizontal one between the two vertical ones.

I'm looking forward to see more progress.

shrogg

Fenyce wrote: »

Look sweet so far.
I'd improve the wood thats directly on the tent (connecting the cloth) and to be true, I first didn't recognize the door and ask myself "eh? where to enter?!"
Maybe do it out of a diffrent colored clothpiece (like completly blue)
And maybe you could add another wooden beam holding the cloth up, but a horizontal one between the two vertical ones.

I'm looking forward to see more progress.

Thanks for the crit!

The wood texture isn't actually anything much more than a few brush strokes right now (currently reading up on how to get a good looking wood texture)
Another reason why that wood looked so bad was due to the vertex colors being entirely black (not too sure how that happened)

Here is the texture in its current form, I'm open to any sort of review as to how i have laid out my UVs (although there isn't much in this scene so that's not really a big issue as far as I can tell)




Thanks again!

pixelb

The thick wooden posts just don't make sense. Tents are designed to be quick-to-assemble mobile housing. I could almost buy it if the tent were bigger and the cloth draped over a wooden frame, but for a small structure like this there's just no point.

shrogg

pixelb wrote: »

The thick wooden posts just don't make sense. Tents are designed to be quick-to-assemble mobile housing. I could almost buy it if the tent were bigger and the cloth draped over a wooden frame, but for a small structure like this there's just no point.

Yeah, I agree %100.
This model started out as some sort of goblin shop, but i then realized i had concept art drawn up for a tent and never got around to changing them.

Anyway, heres an update


I also painted a fern texture today

_DMage_

Cartoon style i love that thumbs up!

shrogg

Made a bunch of rocks and threw them into, what is now turning into a scene.
I may finish up the door texture then start work on something that I have been thinking about for a while, although I'm not sure i want to commit myself to a large project without more practice.

Fenyce

Looks cute, I like the fern! I think the upper part of the woodbeam is a little to dark, seems almost black to me, looks like it has seen some fire, hehe.

shrogg

Fenyce wrote: »

Looks cute, I like the fern! I think the upper part of the woodbeam is a little to dark, seems almost black to me, looks like it has seen some fire, hehe.

Oops haha, How did I not catch that one... Well its fixed now (Vertex color occlusion bake must of done something funny)

shrogg

Spent the last 10 minutes making a small camp fire, I could probably reduce the polycount somewhat, but it looks alright for what it is.

The texture could use some work

shrogg

Are there any decent guides on painting wood? For example, a crate.

I have that currently, but I'm unsure as to how i would go about highlights.

Cheers

shrogg

Decided to finish the crate texture today

Jessica Dinh

How do you get in the tent, the door looks like it's stitched to the rest of it? :0

As far as your question about highlights, just think about where the lighting is coming from. If from the top, then you would paint all top-facing planes a little brighter, and all down-facing ones in shadow. Currently your planks have no lighting! Same with your campfire stones, and how come the ends of the logs are so dark?

Keep it up though, a little camping scene could be cute! ^^

cholden

The roof seems overcomplicated. A more stacked, layered leather that show more shape conture from the supports below.

ftiw, here's a orc hut roof leather I painted for warhammer. It displays most of those concepts. The four corners has wood supports below them.
http://chrisholden.net/gallery/pages/at_leathers01.htm

shrogg

Jessica Dinh wrote: »

How do you get in the tent, the door looks like it's stitched to the rest of it? :0

As far as your question about highlights, just think about where the lighting is coming from. If from the top, then you would paint all top-facing planes a little brighter, and all down-facing ones in shadow. Currently your planks have no lighting! Same with your campfire stones, and how come the ends of the logs are so dark?

Keep it up though, a little camping scene could be cute! ^^

Thanks for the crits Jessica! Your scene was actually one of the reasons i wanted to try out hand painting

I'm still planning out how to do the door (have a nice little research folder going atm)
I think i may remove it altogether and fill out the empty space by making a few things like a backpack, bed roll and sheet for the bed.
As for the campfire, The ends of the logs are black because i am (hopefully) going to be adding some particles to them and clean wood would look weird burning... :P

cholden wrote: »

The roof seems overcomplicated. A more stacked, layered leather that show more shape conture from the supports below.

ftiw, here's a orc hut roof leather I painted for warhammer. It displays most of those concepts. The four corners has wood supports below them.
http://chrisholden.net/gallery/pages/at_leathers01.htm

Oh wow, that's an awesome texture!
When i originally laid my roof out i had no intention of it being leather, but it just slowly drifted towards that look.
Now that I compare it with yours, My interpretation of this patchwork leather does seem rather complicated,
I think that I may shape the patches on it to look more like a skinned animal, or even drop the leather look altogether and make it more like canvas as the red cloth tent beneath it probably won't look right with a full-on leather roof.

Again, Thanks for the crits!