Modeling/Art non-related to Amnesia / SOMA

[Rapture]

First try at a hand-painted Texture for a sword.

Nice first try!

Some critique! Here we go.

The edges are not very clear, when dealing with materials such as metal you often get very clear rimlights.

Here's an old one of mine, definately not perfect but it's something to show you what I mean.



Also when two surfaces are near eachother, the colours usually blend due to bounce lighting, these effects are usually even clearer on metal due to reflections, if you have a peek at the areas around my cloth handle for example, you'll notice that there's a sligh tint of red in there!

Also I see that your texture sticks very much to the models geometry, when working with handpainted textures don't be afraid to paint geometry into the textures themselves.

This video is fairly outdated, or rather his techniques are but this is a previous artist at Blizzard entertainment, tutoring a class in handpainted textures, you might want to take a peek!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_GWVez_UHM

Thanks, I'm trying to figure out how to blend colors better together.

I'm a little afraid of using brushes as I'm only using the circle brush at the moment, and smudging colors.

I need to practice a lot more on edges and using highlights/shadows to define geometry.