My most recent project. I tried to learn how to make a decent texture for a horse.
The model can be viewed here horse
Some parts of the process:
I used substance painter to create a coat/ “fur” base and then another map with lighting on top
base color to coat demo
I’m still not happy with the legs but I’ll work on that on future models.
Your horse looks nice, although I can’t really see much of it. I think your scene would benefit from being brightened considerably, having more visual contrast, and using a lighter background. If you’re going to do a flat color background, you should do do something with strong contrast to the object of focus - your horse is dark brown, so your background could be a very light pale brown, a light pale green, or even just a warm off-white.
Anyway, nice job on this, it’s very convincing realism 
Hi, thank you so much for your kind words. I really appreciate it! I was trying to achieve a particular style of photography popular with equine photographers. Honestly I really think it lacks some more contrast and more dark values to create more contrast. I should’ve mentioned that.
Here’s some examples of the reference photos I chose:
