These are in no real chronological order, These works range from 2006-2008 These pieces have a lot of memories attached to them, and they were made during interesting times. More to come...
Sorry, im new here and all, but wanted to point out an awesome artist that was lost today. http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/07/07/obit.comicartist.ap/index.html
The problem is not setting up the mask the problem is the mask is not the same as the render. It's as if the antialiasing is off by 1 pixel. I'm using mental ray maya 2008.
for hand painting i second the 3d coat recommendation. http://img05.deviantart.net/674c/i/2015/068/b/5/golem_bust___part_2___texturing_in_3dcoat_by_turpedo-d8l2e3b.jpg