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I have been doing up some cavalry and came to the highlighting / shading part. Being an ogre player I typically have shaded by using an earthshade was over the whole model. I tried this on the mount and the effect has been suboptimal,looking more like the horse has put on dirty clothes. I was wondering how to shade these (or if shading is not appropriate) and how to rectify the situation.

For this type of surface I would try to use the technique shown in these videos:
https://youtu.be/cw6QjE2a7A0
https://youtu.be/caY1iy_hKUc