Jfitch's texture improvement fun time

jfitch

Hey all, I'm working on improving my texturing skills so I thought i'd start with some hand painted stuff to get a better feel for straight up painting in photoshop. I'm pretty comfortable with sculpting and baking normal maps, but when I get to the texturing phase I find I always have trouble. So I'm going to start with a few different hand painted models for fun and to attempt to improve my texture work, and then try out some next gen workflows as well. Would love any feedback and critique ya'll are willing to give!

I'm going to start by working on a hand painted cleaver. Concept by the awesome Max Davenport 
below.

And here's my first WIP

jacob thomas

Small thing but I would add the extra geo to get the curve of the blade. You have 8 sided holes for the blade but only 3 divisions on the curve.
The texture is looking very nice.

jfitch

Soild point! I'll see if I can add in some additional geo to get a smoother silhouette. Thanks for the feedback  

jfitch

Alright I added a bit more geo and fixed up a few minor points in the texture! I'm thinking of adding some more scratches and broken bits even though it isn't in the concept, just for fun. I'm also going to start doing some pre-vis work on my entry for the Blizzard student art character contest.