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looks great, very nice texture work

yes, nice textures indeed, are they photosourced or did you draw them yourself? Also, what period/culture are you aiming for with the canoe? Indian, modern, Pacific islander? Just out of curiosity...

Great :)

Thanks... Wizenedoldman, I just did a quick google search to find different wood textures as a base. I didn't see much point spending an hour or whatever it would take me to paint a detailed wood grain when I can just source it instead. The hard wood texture was really good, no lighting info at all so I could go in and make it look how I wanted. I went for a modern canoe... I think they are called woodstrip, as opposed to the Indian ones with leather on a wooden frame.

Overall it's pretty fun and quickly rewarding doing small things like this... but really the darklord in my folio needs to be replaced so I'd better get onto that :)

Good to see you back man :) Your texturing always makes me feel warm and fuzzy... down... there....

Very nice Canoe. I just love the texturing.

Bailing out of your boat project eh - punny!

The wood looks great on the paddle... almost too good! I would happly stir my tea with a spoon that looks like that [;)]

haha thanks Aven. uh yeah being warm is nice, glad I could help.

Sorry John not sure what you mean by punny. Maybe you're onto something there with the spoon thing... now I keep thinking there are some issues with scale.

your pun [:)] = boats... bailing... maybe it is time you experienced fishing in a leaky boat?

I hadn't thought of scale being an issue in the wood grain- the wood is has a nice finish to it, smooth with rich colours, which made me think of ornamental wooden items. If you changed these qualities and reduced the grain size the oars wouldn't look as good... one could say they would become Oar-dinary
(sorry, I know that one was in bad taste, couldn't resist)