Black Knight (low poly)
polycounter lvl 9
Here my latest work, an evil looking knight with a black armor. He is 7300 tris total, , 1x 1024* diffuse and specular. Im pretty proud of it but Im sure I could get some critics on it, what do you guys think?
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However...its still a spectacular piece of texture work. Great job.
Can you post some of your texture flats
//screen[viewport grab] of your current setup if its with lighting?
here is the texture sheet;
@gfx engine: yep its 100% hand painted
On his face I get the distinct impression you're out of your safe zone there. You could take a good look at some reference to see how skin responds to light. Yours right now looks very dead and leathery, due mostly to a lack of colour. Well, not even that, it just doesn't portray a material accurately, I think.
Shading with black and white works on metal (up to a certain point), but certainly not flesh. Try painting colours directly, rather than using overlays etc...
Not for the entire thing, obviously, but painting directly with colours tends to strengthen your understanding of them
I agree with Pea about the overall skin tone of the face. It's very bloodless and leathery.
The eye scar looks like a crack in metal, concrete or porcelain, rather than scar tissue.
I think the mouth is painted too wide which is being stretched even wider on the model. You'll never be able to get rid of stretching 100% and most of the time you have to paint around the distortion. It can help to block in details early and nail the proportions before digging into the details. To be perfectly blunt, he has the mouth of a big mouth bass...