Pirate fort getting pirate-y

I am trying to finish blocking out my textures soon. Today I've been working on the metal pieces of the door. It is still a work in progress and I hope to finish it soon. I will try to make a tileable rope texture next then move onto painting the foliage for the scene.

Textures in progress:

Updated fort so far:

Fort Progress

So in the past few weeks, I've been working on this project on and off. My monitor has been off in color and I have been struggling to get the color and saturation the way I want it. After a few failed attempts, I decided to switch monitors with my neighbor instead. The color seems a bit truer and here are a few of my textures so far (textures are still a WIP and needs refinement):

Here are my door and frame textures:

Lower log part of the fort, cannon, and bolts. The extra space is reserved for the objects that go on top of the roof.:

Roof texture:

 The wood plank walls of the fort:

The upper wood planks of the fort:

This is my overall model so far in maya:

I have yet to do the details. These textures still have a long way to go before I can start the details of the gate and the foliage. Oh and I have been awfully spoiled by the cintiqs at my school. I've been trying to relearn how to use the tablet again. Progress is slow. x_x

Painted roof tiles

I spent about 2 days painting this roof tile for the pirate fort. It is a bit dark, I may highlight it later to make it pop a bit more.

This is what it looks like so far on the model itself. I am going to add more polys to have the roof silhouette look more unique as well. But for now, I will work on painting other textures.

Pirate Fort?!

A new project to work on. I am working from a concept from Artyom Vlaskin. The concept art can be found here. But I also have the concept below:

This is what I have modeled so far in maya:

I still need to work on the silhouette a bit and add some minor details. I will try to hand paint the textures for the fort in the next few upcoming days.

Generator?!

Did the sci fi generator to go with my baby incubator. Wish I had more time to paint it, the huge pipe on the side needs to be defined a bit more D: The color balance on my monitor is also messing with me ahhhhhh.

Edit: with more shiny-ness

Avocados and Gradient maps

So I decided to practice with a gray scale and mess around with gradient maps today. Here is the original google image:

Here is my gray scale version: 

Here is the gray scale with the gradient maps: 

I need more work with textures and highlights, but I am going to call this done for now.

Apples

Just a quick apple paint study.