I like doing things the old-fashioned way. vOv

I generally find I work better if I do things in segments. If I do the whole thing at once, I end up getting overloaded, or forgetting things, or rushing them, or just generally fucking up. This way, a section has to be complete and up to scratch before I even consider doing anything else.

As for AOs... I don't know how they work yet, and in any case, it'd be both pointless and detrimental on such a low-poly model when there's no high-poly handy (and I'm not making one). I wouldn't have shadows where I need them, and I would have shadows where I wouldn't need them.

Maybe once I progress onto larger maps and more detailed models I'll start learning some of the fancy baking stuff people do, but until then, I'm happy with doing everything by hand.