I usually make textures for my figures by incorporating photo elements, then altering or painting over them. Now I'd like to try making a figure texture that is completely hand-painted with no photo elements, but I'm not quite sure how to begin. Does anyone know of a tutorial which offers pointers on how to paint a non-photoreal figure texture (like Samildanach's, Tifft's, DeviantDesign's, etc) completely from scratch? Thanks!