New to texturing, does this look good?

This is supposed to be a tail covered by shell segments with a sting at the end. This is my second texture ever and I don't know if it's good or not so I ask for your opinion.

One what are you making? Two did you use filters? Three it doesn't really look like shell. More like rock

A bug like creature called lock lurker taken from DnD. What is filter?

What is is supposed to be anyway? it looks like the end of an icecream stick with a hook thingie on it.

XD Anyway read my previous posts.

It doesnt even look insectish at all.

Agreed looks like well nothing show us the whole image .

looks like wood sorta, definitely not shell like.

Word.

Show us the whole model daminon.

Looks like the back end of a toothbrush, the one with the little spiky flossing device on the end.

I know nothing about texturing.

Here is a picture of the creature.


Here is the model.

once again, go watch mister poopinmymouth's tutorials. Also check the 3d total tutorials on texturing.

Srsly I don't see which of the tuts that would help me with my shell painting. :/

Booh I can't paint a shell. :'( Horseshoe crab shell lookes like green color with a little noise but that doesn't look well on the model. :<

it's not about the damned shell, it's about technique! If you don't have general technique you don't have anything. All the rest comes from observation. I mean how damned hard can it be to look at a bug's shell and study it's material? Look at how glossy it is, what color variation, surface detail (maybe little bumps) and so on. I'm telling you, set up your technique first.