Immediately see you're going in the right direction, following tutorials and real examples where you can pull instances from and apply it to future personal work for me also is the best method. Maybe after finishing the tutorial do a new project and compare it to the first thing you did, will definitely give you the…
@gsAlpha7 Hey man. Yeah the tutorials you are following are pretty good. I like the one for the pillar better. I would suggest the tutorial by Tyson murphy from 3dmotive. He explains things perfectly! Remember that you're not trying to learn how to make this sword, but rather how you should render lighting, what kind of…
@gsAlpha7 I am glad you picked something small to start off with! This is an excellent way to start learning handpainted stuff. "I feel a lot like a kid painting while trying to paint textures, is this normal for beginners?" Yes this is completely normal! You are learning something new, it takes time to learn new things :)…
With hand painted textures, you want to capture some light in the texture. Right now, you just have dark lines indicating the woodgrain, instead of suggesting the form with a shadow on one side and a highlight on the other. There are plenty of great hand painted texture tutorials out there. I particularly liked the one…
@Meloncov 3dmotive subscription added on my wishlist :P @FemCharles I'm actually quite terrified of big projects so sticking to small things.I'm not really interesting in sculpting at the moment, would like to learn the "traditional ways" first before jumping into that kind of stuff. I'm following some tutorials from this…
@tomenjerry Hi and thanks for the tips, I started watching the tutorial you are talking about(Hand Painted Texturing Tyson Murphy,3dmotive) and it's preety good indeed.I spent many hours this weekend following the steps to make the sword and this is what I came up with: I used Krita instead of Photoshop.That was a lot of…