Just from seeing your posts here recently I think you need to get better at learning, and finding ways outside of tutorials to learn from. Tutorials are fine to pick up some tips and tricks and technical know how, but they will not be able to teach you to be a better artist. You should probably stick to hand painted style…
Thanks for all your advice. I'm going to try painting instead of projection then. It is a nice style and seems like a direct and efficient workflow. However I've never created hand painted textures before so it will definitely be a learning process. Back to the drawing board so to speak :P I'm starting with this tutorial…