awesome advice in here just wanted to chime in and say, with the amount of information on your texture you could easily halve the size and not lose anything. that large a sheet for this style of diffuse is o-o-o-o-overkill
Thanks for the feedback, everyone. :) @linkov: Thank you for the crits and rendering tips. I can go back and make some quick adjustments for the sake of portfolio, otherwise I'm ready to move onto other projects. Thanks for all your crits along the way. I really appreciate it. @Jacques Choi: I could try re-rendering the…
Shad0wForce, that hilt look better. You can vary thickness of highlights and shadows to make it look more interesting. Also, turn off viewport shading. I'm usually paint my textures in 'flat' mode. If it look good without any lighting, it will look good with shading too. The reason for this, is that hand-painted 'style'…