good ol' photoshop, or something else like zbrush polypaint or substance painter? Or a combination? I'm kind of on the fence about getting substance for this purpose, but I'd like to hear what you guys do. I've heard substance painter is kind of misleading for this purpose, but those posts were like 2 or 3 years old.
One of my dreams is to handpaint using actual paint. I did something like this in 2014, where I printed out my UV maps, filled them in by hand, then rescanned it onto my computer. Only problem was it was expensive. I only had my leftover acrylics and gauche paint from college, and they were pretty limited. But the results…