Learning Blender: A Hands-On Guide to Creating 3D Animated Characters

Limitations of Blender’s Texture Paint

While Blender’s Texture Paint is very cool and has a lot of options (that you should explore further, as here you’ll only see the very basics), it does have its limitations. It has no layers, for example, which is a pretty basic and very useful feature for texture painting. In fact, there is an add-on out there that tries to mimic layers, but using it is not very easy when you want to work directly with layers in your image. Also, painting over the 3D model can get a little slow sometimes, depending on how powerful your computer is.

Of course, Blender isn’t a substitute for proper 2D image editing software, but it does provide you with a set of tools that allow you to do basic texture painting. (There are ...