1st texture here

lookin better

Like it, now add detail

Very nice if you ask me, you should have a tinker with normal mapping it, looks rough enough to make good use of it.

def lookin better in the second one.

Looks nice man!

It doesn't look like you spent too much time on it, and judging from your previous textures, I think you can do better.

The shape of the curb doesn't make sense (doesn't on the originial either) And the shadow that it's casting onto the road is too big. In fact it shouldn't really cast shadow on the road as it's on the same level as the road and not floating around in mid air.

The cobble looks more likea brickwall and looks squished and grayscale.. Lose the black gaps inbetween the stones and put some dirt there, some weeds etc. The repetition on the stones is also very noticeable (you used a small square of stones and copy/pasted it 3 times to cover the whole area.

kleiny wins

Ok now you've made a mistake that many people do when they switch from a low resolution such as 256 to a higher resolution like 512.... the stones are HUGE.

The stones are still a single flat color and the gravel needs to be worked in a bit better so it doesnt look like the stones are just pasted on. Make it look like they are EMBEDDED into the dirt. In general, don't just take a photo and cheese it in. If you don't have any deadlines to worry about spend the time and WORK IT IN so it looks good.

And more color variation. You can do some great things with color if you use it right, it's what brings textures to life.

Keep going

that looks ehhh... wierd.

well be objective for a second, tower.

Do YOU think it looks right?

Looking at the texture I can instantly point out two things that make it look wrong.

1) The Stones that look stretched vertically because they came from a photo source that wasn't big enough.

2) The "dirt" you added is a single source picture of gravel and your stones are simply pasted on top of that.

Doesn't work that way. Take PORTIONS of source pics and paste them in MANUALLY, then work them in with care and blend them in or re-paint where they interact with the stones if necessary.

One more thing, make sure the dirt you have isn't dotted with "black holes from hell", it flattens the look of your texture and makes it look unnatural. Same goes for things like grass (inbetween the blades), rubble (inbetween stones and pieces of wood), etc...

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I like the colors of this one but it looks weird stretched. The two dark stones in the upper middle could cause an ugly repeating pattern ingame if you have the texture on a long wall or street and look on it from far distance.

some of the shading on the dirt -> rock looks really sketchy. Take more time and dodge/burn parts.

Actually a method that I prefer doing INSTEAD OF dodge/burn is to use brushes for doing highlights and shading. I feel like it somehow gives me more control over my art as I can just put everything on its own layer and assign a layer style to it, etc etc.. I almost never use dodge&burn.

so..you put a darker color as a brush and make a new overlay layer and draw what you want to be darker?