Love Sword

This project was my first dive into hand painted textures as well as curating something for an unlit environment. After watching many YouTube tutorials and researching hand painted workflows, I was able to approach this project from a new and exciting perspective! I learnt a lot, and enjoyed the relaxing, albeit long, process of hand painting the textures.
All elements of the sword were blocked out in folders that related to their general base colours. From there, I built up the depth of the piece by using the generated maps from baking in a mask editor. Each element was then hand painted to resemble the amazing reference piece from Elodie Mondoloni https://www.artstation.com/artwork/LRG6w0 . On top, I used a baked lighting stylized filter to achieve the deeper, enriched colours and simulate the effect of lighting.