studying some models and need help

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Anonymous10/16/26, 19:57No.1033709studying some models and need help
so i am starting to understand and am getting close to making my character, however i understand uvs and whatnot, and its starting to make sense, however how do u coordinate the folds of the clothes and the grey balnd geometry, i can imagine it being kinda hard to do without allot of trial and error, maybe frustatringly so, and how do u do folds and hair, any pointers and help would be apreciated thanks
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Anon10/16/26, 20:05No.1033711
That's just painting shading, you'll need to level up as a 2d artist
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Anon10/16/26, 20:05No.1033712
Why don't you just watch a texturing tutorial dude? This shit is Kindergarten knowledge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGN7Wby2thk&t=3sOr just ask ChatGPT.
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Anon10/16/26, 20:29No.1033715
The paint directly on the model, not in the unwrapped flat space
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Anon10/20/26, 11:46No.1033829
Oldfag 3D artist here.First of all, yes - you really want to grasp some 2D painting 101 if you want to level up your low-poly art to the next level. Shading, clothes wrinkling rules, implication of mass and material... that sort of stuff.Next, and this is the big one: try FIRST making the texture file, and THEN unwrap your model manually ONTO the image. Yes, this is indeed how we boomers used to do it back in the day; make the 3D mesh's UVs adapt to the texture, not vise-versa.That being said, nowadays you could probably just BAKE an a-OK ambient occlusion map for the whole model, and then layer that on top of your flat- / celshaded model to speed things up. Manual touches are still required if you want to make things look good and consistent.