I found this artist's YouTube channel that has some great info on how you can paint in Blender. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7ALfRw6I5I Personally I mostly still use PS but have been looking for better ways to use Blender or 3DCoat in my work. One thing I've managed to do is hand-paint textures without a tablet, so at…
To me handpainted textures aren't much different than just regular painting. If you're good at painting you'll be good at handpainted textures. So i'd just recommend taking some basic digital painting training like ctrl+paint. From there a program like Photoshop (good 3D painting but buggy), Mudbox(functionally better but…
That's for the educational version though, fine for learning but i really need to for my work :/ Also photoshop does support layers as usual, it handles textures off of PSD files, it's just kind of complicated to use. I had an issue where the 2D and 3D painting desync resulting me in having to reboot photoshop to make it…