Uberren's Tiling Texture Practice 2.0

Uberren

Hi all,
I am trying to incorporate more sculpting into my workflow for personal and professional work and would like some feedback on one of my weaker areas, which is tiling dirt textures.  Here's my sculpt alongside my composite + paint pass.  Any crits would be appreciated on what I can do to improve.  Thanks

Natland

That is some nice dirt. 
I think maybe chill the highlights a tad and amp up the darks a little bit.

Good luck!

Uberren

Thanks Nat, I'll keep you advice in mind because I accidentally saved over my zbrush doc a few days ago so now I have to redo it...lol
I know there's some way to restore it but I figured I'd take it as an opportunity to approach it differently this time.  Here is my current progress for the dirt sculpt:

Uberren

Cleaned up some of the blobbiness, feel like it's starting to become a good base to paint off of.

Uberren

Made a quick, more grainy/rocky sculpt to overlay on top of the previous one, since it was reading more like mud than dirt.  Current look of the dirt texture atm:

I'm quite pleased with it.

Uberren

A rock texture I've been working on as well.
Feedback always welcome (pleaase)

Uberren

Grass texture I worked on today, seems very noisy though, going to see what I can do about it...

Uberren

lightened the darker areas and added some hue variation into the grass:

Kid.in.the.Dark

Looking great Ren, really digging your textures so far haha... however with the grass I'm kinda feeling the grass is a little bit noisy and slightly monochromatic... might be coming from all those highlights/white-ish highlights on every blade.

Other than that, lovely work and keep rolling with this bro!

Uberren

Ayy. thanks Des.  You're right about the noise, so  I redid the grass with less sharp highlights and detail overall and I think it looks much better now.

Uberren

moved on to some tree bark today.

Uberren

I set up a diorama to display the textures I had made, here is a gif of the progression that the scene went through:


And here are the final shots of the diorama:


Some more images and a video are available here:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/aVaRX

darkmag07

Awesome work Ren! That last pass on the leaves did wonders for making the scene flow.

Elithenia

This is absolutely gorgeous!

ridley075

The rocks near the waterfall are really blurry atm. drew my eye as soon as i saw it, looks really off compared to the rest of the detail in the scene. Also, the pool or whatever thats in the middle of the camp. needs something in the water, or whatever thats supposed to be. Some sort of detail. Right now just looks like a flat material with a light on it. Otherwise, very nice.

Waffenwalter

Those trees are absolutely gorgeous! Mind doing a little breakdown?