Hand-Painted Texturing In Blender

Learn How to Paint Custom Stylized Textures on your Blender Models

What you'll learn

Build confidence with painting

How to create a 3d model from a reference image

How to prepare the 3d model for texturing (UV Editing)

How to see and use Value, Hue, and Saturation effectively

Requirements

Basic level of comfort using Blender.

Graphics tablet strongly recommended!

Painting is NOT a requirement!

Description

Welcome to my course on Hand-Painted Texturing in Blender!Not all 3d artists have the 2d art skills necessary to pull off stylized hand-painted textures often seen in games and sometimes film. So I created this course to try and help bridge the gap. My hope is that upon completion of this course you have a greater understanding of how to think and utilize color and build confidence while painting. Getting good at it will still take practice, though!What this course covers:ModelingThe first few sections we tackle modeling the sword. We'll keep things low poly. There is no law against going higher poly, but traditionally lower poly stuff is what gets the hand-painted look. Although, I must admit, I don't know what the reason for this is.UV UnwrappingUV Unwrapping and Editing is up next. This is usually a sore spot for 3d artists out there. It really isn't very much fun. Fortunately, with an addon (TexTools) it eases it a little. Plus lower poly stuff tends to be a bit easier to unwrap.Painting FundamentalsFor the people that have little to no experience painting there is a crash course on painting. I explain what value, hue, and saturation are, and how you use them. Then we'll finish with a painting demo to hopefully wrap it all together.Texture PaintingFrom there we'll finish off painting the sword. I tried to use minimal editing, but there is some because painting can be very time consuming and I didn't want to waste your time.

Overview

Section 1: Creating the Model

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Blade

Lecture 3 Crossguard

Lecture 4 Handle

Section 2: Preparing the Model for Texturing

Lecture 5 UV Unwrap

Lecture 6 UV Edit Part 1

Lecture 7 UV Edit Part 2

Section 3: Fundamentals of Painting Crash Course

Lecture 8 Understanding Values

Lecture 9 Understanding Hue

Lecture 10 Understanding Saturation

Lecture 11 Quick Painting Demonstration

Section 4: Texture Painting the Model

Lecture 12 Setting Up Blender for Painting

Lecture 13 Base Color Block In

Lecture 14 Second Pass Part 1

Lecture 15 Second Pass Part 2

Lecture 16 Model Corrections!

Lecture 17 Gem Stone Polishing Pass

Lecture 18 Blade Polishing Pass

Lecture 19 Handle Polishing Pass

Lecture 20 Closing Thoughts

Intermediate to Advanced Blender users.,3D artists looking to expand their skills into the realm of 2D