[WIP] digital painted platformer

Bombshell

I'm working on a 3D platformer, I'm aiming for something along the lines of Croc in terms of visual style, hand painted textures, very colourful, no calculated lighting intended.
I'm working on some world textures at the moment so I can get a decent looking test level, I've not tried all that much with hand painted textures so I'm not in a position to critique my own work.

For the sake of showing it this is a base texture for the character model (which will be played with once main gameplay stuff and a single level are clean and ready)


at first I was writing my own engine but as my needs aren't expensive (and lack of documentation on use of GLSL versions) I decided to not reinvent the wheel and use Unity.

Here is my main concern at the moment, my ground texture (soon to be ground textures with path and grass textures)



any and all comments and crits are greatly appreciated,
thank you for reading,
Bombshell

stevston89

For your character I just feel it's lacking a bit of detail and polish. Take a look at these awesome models by Jonas Georgakakis. http://sketchfab.com/jgfab/recent

Also I think you need to refine and add detail on the ground texture. It's too blurry at the moment.

Snader

Both have very soft looking textures, I think you need to have a bit harsher/contrasty brush strokes. Both seem to be lacking highlights, too. Also that one rock piece that's split across all 4 corners makes the tiling a bit obvious.

Bombshell

I'm focusing on the ground texture for now because I've never considered myself a capable environment artist, so I figured I'd need more help with that.
How is this?