Blender Market offers a variety of affordable textures, add-ons, and tools for Blender users. GitHub repository "Awesome Blender" provides curated links to free and premium 3D textures.
Character creation is not an easy feat as a beginner project in Blender, but if you start small ... it’s just cubes and textures. Don't bite off more than you can chew on your first attempt.
The primary focus here is nozzleboss, a blender plugin which enables the surface textures of already sliced objects to be manipulated. The idea is to read in the gcode for the object, and convert ...