Smooth curves for cartoon texture

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Hi, I was looking at turbo squid to get an idea how to make cartoony characters and found this puppy (the puppy of the two), I can see the UV texture but am curious how someone would go about painting it. Would they paint it in a 2d painting app or in blender itself because the curves are so smooth I think I would have trouble doing it in blender. I thought maybe in GIMP I could use a path to smoothly define an area but that was just an idea.

https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/3d-model-cute-cartoon-dog-cat-1351428

EDIT: This is just to create the asset it is not intended to be exported. Although I would be curious about that.

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You can use another object and the boolean modifier to mask out some parts and use blenders texture paint. Here is a quick one (low poly):

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This is a cube, one side half the length extrude subdived and booled with a sphere. The black and white is painted on the border while using intersect and on another painting difference…

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That’s interesting. Do you have any idea of how the actual model was done. Would it have been done with some method like this?

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Just an idea because me straight lines looks like drawn during an earthquake :wink: First i thought dynamic paint is an option… but this just works on vertex color (?).

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Yeah, using a mouse here, no drawing pad… Difficult to draw with.