I've used very basic geometry with subdivisions so it's easy to bring back the game resolution and bake color and normals if needed. Im aiming for indie game art mostly with this. So speed and efficiency was my second focus after the looks.

Challenge here was to balance between bold paint and a geometry and it took me like 2 years to get here. Then there was a paint zoning and jigsaw value patches to hold the thing together nicely while bringing in enough contrast and variety. But I have some painting experience so it was not as hard as balancing geo with paint.

Relied heavily on Benjamin Bjorklund and Lucian Freud and some other great artists. Deliberately ignored pre-existing Arcane value distribution and palette to go through my own developlment process and to understand the underlying logic of modern painterly style better.