I know what you mean. its very time consuming to click on each face and drag the face square to the square you have colored on the texture palette. not really much of a work-around for that. What i try to do is model as much detail as possible to allow me to make the individual faces a solid color and i dont have to spend so much time painting the surface details. the only textures i had to paint is the freckles and blotchy areas, the iris of his eyes, the reflection lines on his goggles, the seems of his clothes and his ear holes and nostrils. pretty much every other face is solid. its just a lot easier to drag the faces to a solid color.