A stab at Hand painted textures

Narh

Been wanting to try my hand at painting textures. So after days and days of doing studies and scribbling, I finally got around to making some (2) finished textures. Any Tips/critique (good or bad) is welcomed

These 2 took about 2-3 hours each, and I'm slowing working on a 3rd right now.




Also, Are there any tips to making dirt-like ground textures? I want to try making some, but I've no clue where to even begin =\

Gannon

I like the color choices but you're missing some forms. Mostly your medium details are missing which from a distance makes these very boring to look at. You've got a great start though, just go through and give it another pass to bring out some of the smaller details.

Narh

Good to know Im doing something right

That 3d one I was working on.


Plus, another plank texture using my previous one as a base. Only painted 2 boards and flipped them around to get a feel for things. Very much a wip still.

Narh

Still cant figure out Dirt-like textures, so heres some Birch bark instead.

Youngy798

They look pretty cool! I am looking to have a go at this aswell so it was some nice inspiration.

Narh

Just dont make the same mistake I did when i first started: Do NOT dive right into detailing. Its nerve-wrecking.
Block out the Shape(s) first, set the tone (Colors and lighting) and go from there. Start out Big and work smaller.

Narh

Discovered my favorite method for hand painting texture now - High poly sculpt in Zbrush, bake some maps, and use those as the basis for a paint-over.

A quick "experiment" I did. Mainly used the fast mallet tool on a high size/low intensity until I got the shapes build up, then refined and build edges using the hard polish tool.
Quite happy with the result.

Narh

Some sort of Cobble texture.. This took a while, but i learned a few tricks while making it

Narh

Aaand another one, still in the scribble stage.

Narh

Almost done
Quite happy with how its turning out so far.

Fenyce

Nice! There surely is some great improvement! You should put some color on the lastest one, just so you practice that, too!

Narh

Trying to figure that out xD
Painting it in with the layer set to "color" makes it look too cartoony

Narh

Still a bit of touch-ups to do, but I like it so far

Fenyce

You need to choose some desatured colors I think (when working with "color" layer). I'm not used to work from greyscales to color, but I think I remember something like that.

Edit: looks nice so far! I really like that Style! Maybe do some slight color variations on the grass!

Snader

How was the grass in that last one made? It looks like the grass blades are instanced geometry, or are they some very clever photoshop brushes?

Narh

Very clever brushes, actually.
Although I did consider rendering some base geometry to work off at first.

Fenyce

Would you mind to give some tips/a tutorial on how you did those grass blades? I would love to know that.

Joopson

Great grass tutorial here, Fenyce. Looks like the same technique. Or close, at least.:
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=127421&highlight=grass+brush

Narh

Joopson wrote: »

Great grass tutorial here, Fenyce. Looks like the same technique. Or close, at least.:
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=127421&highlight=grass+brush

yep. Thats it :P

metric meditation

Glad you find that tutorial useful so happy that I can contribute !!!

-metric

Narh

Some highlights and subtle color variation:
Probably going to bump up the vibrancy a tad though.


And Tiled:

Fenyce

Beautiful texture, but the tiling is obvision and the stones seem like been places weird. Such big gaps, which people wouldn't do while building a road, but they are to evenly placed to be randomly placed by nature, if you understand what I mean.

But you really did a great improvement!

Narh

Well, When making this texture I was thinking more "Garden path" than Cobble road / naturally occurring.
:P

EDIT:
Also might block off the two "chipped" / "curved" stone (the ones right next to eachother). The Repetition is a tad too much wit them two.

Narh

touched it up; added subtle shadows where the grass covers the rock, more color variation and made it Less "dirt-spectrum" colored.

cleiteag

They're looking great! Really inspiring work!

metric meditation

looking great! now lets look at those stones. they are feeling kinda flat. how about doing this:

-create a layer, and set it to "screen"
-with a medium SOFT brush, poke the surface a few times with a color that is the same as the stone, but with some warm color added to it. like an orange/grey.

-It is gonna look way too strong, so go to your layer opacity and pull it way down so that you have a nice subtle hint of warm color

great job... keep going

Narh

*been busy with other projects*

Added some *slight* color and highlights to the stone to make them seem less flat.

Didnt look right at all using Screen mode =\
Ended up using Mahogany/Orange-ish on overlay and light grey on Multiply, both set to a very low transparency.
Also dulled some of the bight edge highlights

metric meditation

here, I made some slight adjustments. what I did was add a slight warm screen layer... pulled down to about 15% or so and added lighter values to the stone to make it pop a little more. at this point, it is just fussing with the final 10% of the texture. overall, this is really good

Narh

I see what you mean about the warm filter layer. does make it pop a tad more
Anywho, Decided to put what i learned from that texture into a new one. This time dirt!

Here's what I have so far:

TonyNowak

Beautiful texture this latest one. The dirt texture looks like it's off too a good start, more small pebbles?

Narh

I was lucky enough to get sick the past few days and couldn't do much of anything >_>

Feeling better today, so Started a new one:

Narh

High-poly Scuplt - Not perfect but I like it

Narh

AAnd a tiny amount of progress....

RobeOmega

http://www.artbypapercut.com/
Get Vertex 2 and read pages 268-281 it has some things that I feel could help you with these stones

Narh

I may or may not already be referencing it... :P
Not following it word for word, though. I want to find what works for me, rather than copy someone else's process =\

Narh

1st pass:


Tiling:

MachineMeditation

These are beautiful, it's nice to see some hand-painted semi-realistic work instead of just ultra-realistic. Very nice painting approach.

metric meditation

so far, these are looking good. your sense of value is getting there. I know you are not done yet, but certainly think about what kind of stone you are working with. this will dictate the colors and color variations.

you might also want to think about putting some material in between the stonework like sand or snow to give it a more interesting character

Narh

Small about of work on it, Namely added moss and a bit of color.
Gonna spend some time defining the rock slabs some more though.

Narh

Had a Project that took priority over these texture practices the last week, But i had some headway on this one today

Narh

Decided to try something more challenging
High-poly wip sculpt in zbrush:

Khangaroo

Be careful of lumpy sculpt for your rocks. You want to make sure they read as rocks. Some sharp angles and flatten a few areas will help a lot.

Narh

Yea, That was a WIP image. Much more refined now



Still needs some work, but I can tough it up in photoshop as I go.

AlexCatMasterSupreme

It would have been more funny if the first post of this thread was a hand painted dagger to go with the thread title.

luge

^that would have been a tad funny. on point, i love your style.

Narh

1st Pass - lots to do still but it looks nice

littlebump8

Nice work there.

Narh

TADA! Done.


Might bring up the saturation on the dirt a tad, though.

Narh

Had some running around today, so here something fairly simple...

SAND!

Narh

Aand finished

metric meditation

your textures are getting better and better!! you should be giving yourself a huge pat on the back!