E-11 Blaster Rifle 1.22

Which tutorials do you mean? I wouldn't go as far as call myself a PBR artist yet, since I've only used Substance Painter to create a weathered down and scratched paint surface, which then I had to fix a lot because the procedurally generated wear and tear wasn't too accurate. The rest of the texture was made by me entirely in Photoshop for the exception of the diamond plastic pattern on the grip and the metal base texture. The rest of it was modeled from the start before Circa told me about your model. Have I known beforehand, I think I would've modeled a another gun instead of yet another E11, because yours looks great.

Well i thought you've looked at my saber tutorials here on JKHub, very easy ones even tho they were flagged as "hard". Would have given you a good intro for both modeling and texturing with Substance Painter alone - without Photoshop. At this point, i look at Photoshop as a general picture/texture editor and Substance Painter as a game-specialized software for texturing - you should get used to it, because you've got talent.

Well i thought you've looked at my saber tutorials here on JKHub, very easy ones even tho they were flagged as "hard". Would have given you a good intro for both modeling and texturing with Substance Painter alone - without Photoshop. At this point, i look at Photoshop as a general picture/texture editor and Substance Painter as a game-specialized software for texturing - you should get used to it, because you've got talent.

I'm learning Zbrush too on the side. While I don't find difficult learning new tools, I usually have a hard time making the transition. Once I'm comfortable with a tool (in this case Softimage and Photoshop, I stick to it even when I know it may not be the right tool for the job. For example, right now I use ArtRage for my digital painting, but it took me a long while to leave Photoshop. I still use Photoshop for texturing and image touching. But I clearly need to learn Substance Painter and Zbrush to complete my skill set. Thanks for the advice.

I'm learning Zbrush too on the side. While I don't find difficult learning new tools, I usually have a hard time making the transition. Once I'm comfortable with a tool (in this case Softimage and Photoshop, I stick to it even when I know it may not be the right tool for the job. For example, right now I use ArtRage for my digital painting, but it took me a long while to leave Photoshop. I still use Photoshop for texturing and image touching. But I clearly need to learn Substance Painter and Zbrush to complete my skill set. Thanks for the advice.

No problem, you might also wanna look into the Zbrush alternative Autodesk Mudbox. Basically, Zbrush is more popular and generally more used by people but you can do everything in Mudbox that you can do in Zbrush, it just has a much nicer user-friendly UI. A lot is in the shortucts there tho.