Newb doing handpainted stuff

battiloon

Hi! I have doing this 3d stuff for a short while but am nowhere near the level I want to be. I am hoping by posting here, I will be able to improve on this.

What I am hoping in the end is to be able to paint anime stylized art in 3d and achieve an art style I can call my own. Will try to post one model every other day.

I will update this post to show my newest model. You can see the rest of my stuff at my sketchfab.

Fruit from "Tenco's Story"

aaronmwolford

I suggest you check out some hand-painted texturing tutorials and focus on material definition. Here are a couple good ones I did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o32zADYz8uE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkXUzj71t1g

and of course the polycount wiki has some good stuff too under "painting stylistic textures".

http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/TexturingTutorials

ActionDawg

I think there's a design problem to be addressed too, because it's very tame and bland here. For one, the blade shape needs a more clean taper to it, and overall visually you aren't utilizing your forms to their fullest extent. Push the silhouette and idea of a toucan further. Try to consider how this was object was made. Is it made straight up from a toucan's head? Or something crafted? What kind of world does this thing exist in?

battiloon

@aaronmwolford
Those are nice tutorials that I've seen but wasn't what I was looking for.
@somedoggy
Good advice. I wasn't really thinking of the design of it when I started and just wanted to paint something. Will keep this in mind when I make future stuff.

For today I made a fruit from the touhou doujin "Tenco's Story". Using a page from the doujin as reference.

Some things are off in the texturing. I think it is because my lines in the shadows are not clean enough. I will try to practice to draw cleaner lines so I can draw the shadows in one smooth stroke instead of many sketchy lines.

Another thing that is off is the lighting? I`m not that sure actually.

battiloon

Tried to do some color adjustments and it seemed to look better after adding more contrast.