Octopus Large Scales

I added some larger scales around the eyes and base of the body of the octopus so it doesn't look so uniform.

These were made by sculpting several scales onto a subdivided plane and extracting them as a texture. I used this image as a stencil to sculpt them back onto the body. That way I didn't have to sculpt them all individually. Some like the ones around the eyes were sculpted by hand.