Horror Themed thorns.
Its handpainted...so not much to say. Mostly the Paint and smudge tool was used, and a bit of the ol clone stamp.
I baked the lowpoly to itself to get a quick normal map for the sole purpose of being able to see were the spikes were, and followed the techniques in this thread for the normal map:
http://www.game-artist.net/forums/tu...-new-post.html
Diffuse:
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/2...diffus2ms1.png
Specular:
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/9...pecularkx0.png
Normal:
http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/3...normalscc5.png