First attempt at hand painting

JonConley · Oct 2015

Finished:

Concept:

I put my dinosaur on hold so that I could learn to hand paint the textures. The other day Udemy had some tutorials on sale so I bought up all of the hand painted and mobile ones they had. Started watching the Tyson Murphy hand painted tutorial and this is where I currently am:

Saint Sloth · Oct 2015

That looks pretty nice. My only suggestion would be to add a bit more texture into parts of it, but with how it's painted now, it clearly and interestingly does it's job.

JonConley · Oct 2015

@saintsloth, thanks for the crits and encouragement.
Grabbed a little bit of time today and started working some more details in the blade. I am not so sure how I feel about some of the stuff, the scratches seem a little too deep and the little divets may not work overly well here.

JonConley · Oct 2015

Found some more time before bed. Some more detail work. I like what the top of the blade guard is doing, so I will have to duplicate that going down.

Nolt · Oct 2015

Looks nice

. The only thing that stands out to me is it feels like the colors could be more saturated. BUT that depends on the style you're going for I guess. Also maybe a bit more contrast and edge definition. Keep it up!

JonConley · Oct 2015

@peanuteng, I'd go back and try to get some painterly feeling strokes in there, right now it looks like a gradient + noise + dark strokes with photoshop emboss over them.

@9thknight Yeah, I could see that depending on the style.

Calling it a night and will do a little GI tomorrow night and then will call it finished.

JonConley · Oct 2015

Little color bleed and then sharpened it up a bit while adding in a little more contrast. Calling it finished for now

Tre Z · Oct 2015

This came out awesome, great work man!

JonConley · Oct 2015

Tre Z, thank you. I'm pretty happy with it. A friend of mine has told me to up the saturation a bit and do another highlight pass. So I may revisit and do that, and potentially add a couple scratches to the bronze areas.

Tectonic · Oct 2015

I think it looks really good, the blade doesn't look quite like metal though. it looks rough and textured like stone. here's some examples for ya.

BradMyers82 · Oct 2015

In my opinion the hand painted tutorial is a great resource but its extremely stylized and the materials (especially the metal blade) don't read that well. I think that's really the intent since its stylized but I've never seen metal with large cuts in it like that or those large round spots either. That said, I think you are doing a good job, but the best thing you can do is treat this as a learning process and try to make your texture an exact duplicate of the tutorials. So I would focus on adding more color variation, contrast, and hitting those highlights and shadows more aggressively. I wouldn't call it done just yet, you seem to be focusing a lot on small details, but the general lighting, spec and color still needs a lot of love. Good luck man!

First attempt at hand painting

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