Creating textures...

How can I create textures? I know there is a way…

Create textures as in…?
- Make objects not light grey
- put fancy patterns on an object
- load a picture as a texture
- draw a picture to be a texture
where are you up to so far and where should I start from?

like… hmm… drawing pictures to be a texture.

http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~strubi/3d/textute/index.html

http://205.152.62.12/gruff/