These are great, and don't feel like you wasted your time. I have painted forever, and am learning to move from canvas to screen. But with the whole photo-texture craze, I decided to make my own. Made three textures from photos, and actually spent a great deal of time on them. And ya know what? I prefer the painted ones better. And here is the reason. I am not striving for my art to look like a photograph. (That's what I have a camera and a sewing machine for.) When I paint a picture, I don't paint every single pore onto the figures face. I go for the mood and the lighting, but never an exact recreation of real life. I look at digital art the same way. I want the mood, the vision, the scene, but I don't want my finished product to look like I just finished snapping a camera. Of course, this is not saying anything about those who prefer this. It is everyone's own choice. And I can envision some reasons why one may want their renders to look completely real down to the pores. But I can get just about as detailed with a hand painted texture, and that is all the farther I need.