First time in Blender

[Seiseki]

But that won't allow me to have lines that follow the edges :/

Spoiler

The problem area here is the chest. The legs are problematic too.

[surt]

If it's just asymmetry that you're worried about you can add some extra geometry so that the triangulated mesh is symmetrical.

[Seiseki]

If it's just asymmetry that you're worried about you can add some extra geometry so that the triangulated mesh is symmetrical.

I didn't think about that, thanks!

[DatMuffinMan]

well, it's been a while, and I've learned some more things. slowly starting to make more complicated shapes, studying kennethfejer's work for now.



is there a trick to get pixels to line up well on the uv map? I guess one way is to make sure the dimensions of each face are in whole-number ratios, but that gets to be a pain if I want to nudge an edge forward or something.

[Seiseki]

It looks like a mix of different resolutions.
Use a pixel grid pattern for the texture when doing UV work and it's easy to keep the pixel size consistent.