Hi there, I'm looking for advice on how to go from sketching to painting textures for my models. I've never really done much work in color. How did everyone else get into painting models? Where can I learn to do that? How do you know what to paint in photoshop? Sorry if this is a re-post of a question. I just did a forum…
Word, I think the biggest thing that helped me with digital painting was having a decent foundation in painting with real paints long before I ever knew what Photoshop was. That's not to say that painting tutorials are worthless, just stick to the ones that aren't Photoshop trickery like Vig said, and more that stick with…
Watch tutorials and the best ref is go out and study the env. Our brain unlocks things of how we see and paint, so no worry of failing. The more you paint the more your brain will understand shape and color. At the first I was the same as you asking this question, no artists are born to paint a badass paint, everyone has…
It really depends. Hand painting the lighting and details into low poly models is completely different than painting details onto a gears of war style character. More details and info is needed. Next time try searching for textures or hand painted.
Don't mean to derail your thread about painting for 'texture work' but I don't know to this day I can't 'paint' I still see it differently I "color" I don't paint. Does anyone else feel the same? Like craig mullins stuff looks 'paintely' to me... But if I tried to do that I'd end up drawing it first then 'coloring' it in…
My route was painting textures for models --> drawing --> painting (academic). Looking back, I can tell u the most important stuff is learning form - which u alreay have. Values are second, which u already also have. So, really, there's nothing stopping u except self doubt here :) I figure someone competent as u can easily…
If you ever figure it out, let me know. I think the learning path is a little different for everyone. I think digital painting can learn a lot from traditional painting. I would avoid 95% of the "photoshop painting tutorials" online most are "how to make a candy i-mac buttonz". In fact I would skip photoshop all together…