Texture Painting in Blender for Absolute Beginners
Why Blender Stack Exchange recommends it
Blender Stack Exchange answerers point people to it when texture painting fails to work, since it explains the basic UV, image texture and material setup in one short walkthrough.
Recommended by 3 people across 3 different months, 2021 to 2023.
What it is
A 17-minute beginner tutorial from Surfaced Studio on texture painting 3D models directly in Blender. It covers creating a UV map with Smart UV Project, making a paint texture and material, using paint tools and masks, and finishing a low-poly floating island scene.
What people said
Recommends EMGhoulguy · 2021-11 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Problem with vertex painting”
[this video] You might want to watch this, I don't think that vertex paint is actually for changing the colors of your mesh.
Recommends scottywood · 2022-04 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “How to Color Part of Object Different From the Other With Texture Paint”
In texture painting, you paint on an image texture. A material just references that image that has been painted. You're not actually painting the material. If you added a new material but didn't assign it to any parts of your mesh, it won't do anything. Take a look at this video on texture painting basics, it's a good quick rundown and I think it addresses your question in a very clear way. Texture Painting [this video]
Recommends TheJollyLaMa · 2023-12 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “I want to texture paint but it says "Missing texture, detected!"”
some things to try: 1.) add a texture in the "texture slots [LINK] 2.) UV Unwrap object [LINK] 3.)Add an "Image Texture" to the base color and then select your texture painted material by clicking the little dropdown instead of picking an image file 4.) this dude has a recent run down worth watching: [this video] [LINK]