Generally speaking hand painted shadows always look sexier when they're a purple-grey colour. The bricks look pretty cool, and the damage works well, (maybe a bit of green/yellow in the overlay would be nice). Other than that, the grout needs detailing with shadows and surface texture. Good stuff!
So im really trying to get better at hand painting textures now. I think i have stone pretty good but it could use some work. Here is my first attempt at stone: ETA: 30m - 1h Heres my second attempt after looking at some other work and attempting to recreate it. I think the grout is a little distracting and on future stone…
if i had to say something straight off its your contrast is way too harsh on that second set. make the grout a color cause black is very rarely sexy on anything and it just eats up the texture making all your work for not on those bricks. in general i like the texture though. i think the damage again has too much contrast,…