Most recent update: A wild Squirtle appears! I built this model for fun and I thought that I might as well do a quick texture for it. I guess I'm just going to hand-paint the diffuse without normal maps. 1,312 tris per Squirtle. I plan on working in 1024x1024 and then scaling down to 512x512 Let me know if you can see…
Thanks for the critique poopinmymouth. I was trying to go for a gummy, almost SSS sort of feel, but I guess it wasn't working out. I made the dark blues a lot darker, lightened the shell divisions on the chest, and made the edges of the shadows on the stomach harder (like the shell on the back). I also made the stomach…
Thanks, tanka. I did all of it in separate layers. Maybe its not the most efficient way, but it allowed me to easily adjust any of the sections. I haven't drawn anime since I was like 12, so I kept it simple. I just got a reference image and kept adjusting it until it looked decent on the model. I wish I hadn't layed out…
Update! Thanks for the support. I managed to do some more texturing in the last couple of days, despite working lots of overtime this week. This has been going surprisingly quickly and easily, especially because I keep getting stuck on other projects. I started out by painting in rough shapes with pen pressure set to…