Chapter 23Organic Surfaces
Organic surfaces are probably the toughest surfaces to create, because not only do you have to make them look realistic, but you also need to make them look alive, and that is by far the trickiest thing to do in texturing.
I tried, I really did, to write a step-by-step tutorial on painting human skin for this book, but failed miserably. You cannot give somebody a paint-by-numbers tutorial on painting human skin because a lot of artistic technique is involved, and it requires an approach and a certain delicacy that cannot be taught, only developed over time and with practice.
And the same really applies to any organic surface. This is because organic surfaces require a subtlety that can be demonstrated but not laid out ...
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