My first try at hand painted texture

Bar0n

Hello, I was redoing the topology of my Jak redesign because he wasn't game friendly and I decided to make it my first try at hand painted texture. Redid the topology of most of his parts and put everything on one texture set, besides his hair.



i've been texturing for the past 2 days so I need a break and some fresh eyes on it, any tips to get it better are very appreciated!

Jedairusz

Good start! It needs more AO and gradient (darker lower parts and lighter upper parts of body). It needs also more highlights - It looks quite  flat now. Some color variation will help too. You can paint subsurface scattering effect on nose and ears.

Bar0n

Jedairusz said:

Good start! It needs more AO and gradient (darker lower parts and lighter upper parts of body). It needs also more highlights - It looks quite  flat now. Some color variation will help too. You can paint subsurface scattering effect on nose and ears.

Thank you! I did have my AO and gradient from world position, but I just realized that I may have painted over it, I need to check.
Thanks for the tips!

Bar0n

i added some more ao and subtle gradient and a bit more saturation, butm aybe i overdid it, what do you think?

Tectonic

just shifting some hues and values in photoshop, this looks a bit better to my eyes. mainly tried to draw more attention to his head.

Bar0n

Tectonic said:

just shifting some hues and values in photoshop, this looks a bit better to my eyes. mainly tried to draw more attention to his head.

Indeed it looks better! It's a bit softer and more pleasant. I need to try that, thanks!

BittaSingh

Good start baron , but I think you should check about  color theory and learn more about which colors look good with each other . Right now I don't think that purple is getting along with overall character .  

Bar0n

BittaSingh said:

Good start baron , but I think you should check about  color theory and learn more about which colors look good with each other . Right now I don't think that purple is getting along with overall character .  

Hey thanks! The purple it there to contrast the the other colours because it represents his dark side. In the original game Jak transforms into Dark Jak. Although the original dark version is more a light blue, but during my tests I prefered the light purple because it contrasts more!

Bar0n

I updated the texture and modeled also the Morph gun and did a quick pose test

Bar0n

Another pose test, now back on finishing the texture so I can work on the presentation

Bar0n

I think i'm done with this, for now at least.
I might come back to it when i get better at hand painting textures


I tried also @almighty_gir cell shader in marmoset


more breakdowns on my artstation