Stop, collaborate and listen or hammertime, whichever you prefer #1 to making WAR art; learn to paint a skull. Everything ever in Warhammer has skulls on it. This will always be your foe until you conquer it.
Yes I took the leaf off the reference; finagled it in size and direction to create the leaf bunches; then created a 'blob' of six colors picked from the leaves in the reference to overlay on the bunches. The hair, skull and branches are straight hand painted. The statue was made from 6 layers consisting of a base color,…
Pixel Density > number of texture pixels per game unit. Here's what I do: finish you model, reset xforms, then box map it at half the texture resolution (if I'm doing 2 pixels per max unit). or you can just make a box and do what I said above, throw a checker pattern on the box and your model and just eyeball it so the…