First time hand painting texture critique
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Hi there all! This is my first time atempting some hand painted stuff. This is my rough start. Haven't gotten my drawing pad set up yet but it just came in. So I will be doing some wear and tear next.
I'm hoping I could get some advice about how I'm doing so I don't go in the wrong direction.
Thanks!
Hi there all! This is my first time atempting some hand painted stuff. This is my rough start. Haven't gotten my drawing pad set up yet but it just came in. So I will be doing some wear and tear next.
I'm hoping I could get some advice about how I'm doing so I don't go in the wrong direction.
Thanks!
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I don't think I can add much more at the point. Just dive in there and try your best, also, work in layers, that way it'll be easier to go back if you need to.
The way you handle the metal is key. Think about how the specular for metal works, as LMP says, contrast is important - for example, the gold will look more gold if you make it darker, but keep the highlights bright. You can add some smaller details such as nick marks and other subtle surface undulations, to give you the opportunity to show off the metal material with highlights and whatnot.
Just because you are handpainting doesn't mean you can't cheat with some texture brushes too
You can also think about bounce light from two different colors that are next to each other. I also already see you balancing soft with hard edges a bit, which is really awesome. So keep that up!
Anyway, those are some tips you might be able to use to make your handpainting more interesting.
Hope that helps a bit :]
The lighting is good but you definitly need wera & tear!
I can only suggest watching Tyson Murphys Tutorial on hand painted textures.
Getting my tablet working again was a good help with getting those strokes showing through.
Also for the texture sheet, you may have wanted to consider a 128X512 or 256X512, right now you have alot of wasted space which wouldn't be good to display as a portfolio piece.
Also I am still a little new to texturing all together so I'm not completely sure in maya how to export my UV's as something besides a square...
You can push your highlights some more too - doesn't always mean your highlights need to be brighter, or everywhere, but you can darken your metal a bit so that the highlights stand out more. I also noticed that you basically drew in the line where are the edges are. But lines don't always have to be visible, and it might look better if you imply the edge by the mere juxtaposition of one plane being lighter/darker than the other. So there doesn't necessarily have to be a hard line, and just HERE AND THERE you can draw in a sharp hard highlight or something. I think this fading in and out of lines will look more natural.
You don't really have to add as many scratches and nicks as I have here, since you are trying to stay with the clean look. But just as an example of what you can do to help sell the material through small details :]
Great job reducing the polycount while maintaining the graceful silhouette :] I also agree with YakZSmelk about figuring out how to re-UV this to a rectangular map in Maya. The waste of space is not going to look good to employers :poly122:
Hope this helps a bit!! Keep going and good job
p.s. putting your brush in color dodge mode is really helpful at low opacity. You can use it for the most specialist of highlights, or with a giant fuzzy brush for a glow look ... BUT DON'T OVERDO IT! That would look really bad, ask me how i know.. xD
I have been doing a lot of research and practice lately about digital painting in general, so my concept art will improve also!
But anyways here is my update. I just wanted to see what you guys think of my painting so far. Don't want to be doing something wrong completely before I go onto the rest of the weapon.
One of my concerns is that I think it might still look a little gradient-ee and less brush strok-ee. idk though. Thanks for the future advice!
Oh and also I figured out how to get my UV's upright and compact. I can show you guys if you want to see but it is really the same map to the left side
Should I just toughen up and work with 512x256?
@garriola83: Is this what you mean by breaking up the UV? I cant find a nice spot to split it besides here. Suggestions?
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So I realized I needed a little more work on the concepts and techniques of hand painting so I learn how to make these few things. I would like to make a whole scene in the end. But that is a ways of.
I do have a much better understanding of lighting, shadows, and making believable cracks.
|--|- Here is what I hope my end scene will be kinda like -|--|
It will be a character sitting on a create or something sharpening his blade.