Spent a weekend practicing my handpaint skills. 

Saw a random, beautiful wall in Shanghai while walking and couldn't resist making it in 3D. A few hours of fun!

Reference photo

The wooden orb I made over the weekend to practice my handpaint skills. I used the great free tutorial from Antoine Dupuis 

Painted version

Had a ton of fun making this wooden floor material in Substance Designer. Wanted to make it as close as possible to the Orb's Reference.

Having a lot of fun with Substance Designer. Made a stylized dirt material. Reference. 

This was my goal from the beginning to make something similar to the amazing materials that Michael Vicente did for the Heroes of the Storm. I didn't use ZBrush, because I wanted to practice Substance Designer.

Some cloth sculpt practice and texturing. Made flags. Wanted to make it look handpainted just using smart materials.

The process itself.

Small guide:

1. Plane should have 2nd subdivision level.

2. Use [Alt] + DamStandard brush to make folds (you can make LazyRadius 20+ for easier use)

3. Use a Smooth brush to soften

4. Use DamStandard to make counter lines if needed

5. Soften again

6. Increase the subdiv level to 5+

5. Use a Polish brush for extra smoothness

I made these when I was just learning 3D in 2020. Keeping it here to remind myself of the times when I didn't know much and just had fun.