Modeling/Art non-related to Amnesia / SOMA

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Hand-painted seems to be a term used for cartoony textures and not ACTUAL hand-painted textures (tablet), ammiright? Because you can make a texture drawing it yourself with a tablet but people will still call it "normal texture" because it doesn't look like Torchlight or LoL. I drew a lot of textures by hand when I was modeling but for some reason that didn't qualify as "hand-painted", I think the term needs to be rewritten
as "cartoony".

Yeah, what people usually mean when they say hand-painted texture is a texture that looks handpainted, often in the style of, say, World of Warcraft or LoL where there's a lot of painted shadows, soft gradients, an emphasis on edges and highlights, etc, like Traggey did it. Maybe even visible Brush strokes like on some textures in Dishonored.

Of course every texture that you painted is technically a hand-painted texture. For example it is also perfectly possible to hand-paint photorealistic textures using custom made Photoshop brushes or the like. But I think, the point is, most people who judge your work (professionally) don't care how exactly you make your textures. They just want to know if you are able to work in a certain style or not.