Blender Texture Paint Material
In these cases painting directly in the 3d view is often easier.
Blender texture paint material. We can use texture painting too directly to paint on to the model option and also using the uv window paining option we shall see in detail below. On some models the disconnect between painting on the image and seeing the result on the mesh is disorienting. Blender features a built in paint mode called texture paint which is designed specifically to help you edit your uv textures and images quickly and easily in either the image editor or the 3d viewport. Texture paint is similar to ms paint tool where there is a slight difference in usage of the tool as this tool is integrated with blender animation software.
An intro to texture painting and a quick start guide in 3 minutes. Material is required for rendering. However when you render you will just get a default gray if the object does not have a material assigned. Predicting how the texture will ultimately lay on the mesh is sometimes too difficult.
With a quick timelapse at the end of me doing a quick sketch to give you some ideas. Docs sculpting painting texture paint. You will get a black if you do not load an image. Using texture paint mode.
For painting in the 3d view with blender internal. Texture painting allows you to add material detail to your models such as color roughness metalness and bumpiness. You can perform uv texturing on a mesh within blender without assigning a material and you will even see it in your 3d view in textured viewport mode.