Damn tyler i knew for a long time that you were among the best artists in this this community and i knew what amazing art you did in the past, but now like damn you like my top 5 or even nr 1.
That set is insane..Going to be another tb classic.
Cool style, I love it, you did a good work on it. If you take a closer look at your absolution set the line art is a bit messy but on a distance whole picture looks fine, nice colors.
I won't critique other things I see on the Absolution set because your latest work looks much cleaner and pleasant even tho the Absolution is not a bad set at all so I can see you've upgraded.
The only thing I would like to share with you, if you don't mind, is I came up to the conclusion, that because of these stupid mapping specifics, I mean that you supposed to draw a rectangular texture for a square surface, it's better to draw it in square and transform it into a rectangle in Photoshop with proper transformation setting that allows you to not lose that much of a quality as ingame system does when it compresses the texture. Same as you do on feet, right? I may be wrong and you do it that way, I just can't take a closer look on hands from your latest set.
And you did it lazy on top of your absolution head texture. You know this dumb sphere distorts the texture all the time, I don't know why they made it like that but it is, it makes your straight lines curvy when you do something like a tomahawk haircut. There is a way to actually minimize this effect by distorting it by yourself.
I don't like the mapping you did on hands, it's old-school boring in my opinion and I don't get this thumb's anatomy, looks off on both sets.
However, those are nice sets and you definitely feel the color.
Sadly I have to agree... I'm not good with hands, never was. I think I got a good mapping for the fingers (thumb not included) but it's the same hands you see in 2010 sets. It's a very tricky part of the set.
For example on the war set I spent 10+h on the right hand, and noticed it wasn't going anywhere. So I drew the overpaint (see in the gif above) and stuck with it. I think it turned out fitting for the whole picture of the set, so I'm not embarrased of it, but I desperately need some more research on hand textures for sure!
Check out my take on hand mapping
For example my knuckle looks like that whilst yours looks something like that, honestly I can't even place my thumb like that
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