Here's a pot I created in Blender, created the pattern in Gimp, UV mapped in UV Mapper classic, rendered in Daz Studio and added background in Gimp.

Very good Erisian

Very realistic looking!

Thanks everybody. I would like to say that Blender isn't so difficult when you know how but I think that applies to everything so it goes without saying

I agree, so realistic! I think you have mastered Blender.

Thanks Pat. There is still a lot to learn-the same as with Gimp. There is always something you don't know yet, but it's coming.

Erisian - hope you do not mind but, as I am currently doing your faces tutorials and I think the light/shadow concepts are common, I also tried to copy your Autumn Pot in GIMP

Wow. That's pretty good,OMG.

Eris said "Here's a pot I created in Blender, created the pattern in Gimp, UV mapped in UV Mapper classic, rendered in Daz Studio and added background in Gimp".

That's the way to go. Use as many programs as you like and get proficient with as many as possible. A message I heard recently is that the future is video. The big corporations like Alphabet know that and not many people are arguing with it.

Beautiful work OMG. I really like the floor.

Thanks Tas. Sometimes a particular program will do something easier than the program I'm working in so I jump about a bit. I'll probably bring Krita into it too. It has a beautiful multi-transform tool that will be good for warping photo textures to the shape of the UV maps.