I can't tell if it's better or worse.. one hing you have to understand about the bloodmage wrap though is that the mantle part in the texture does not represent the entire mantle on the model. Look at the pattern. then at the model. It's looped, and one of the parts goes on the edges, and the other part is on the back. Also, try using lower opacity on your brush tool to make more gradiented colours, when you want to do shading, you set opacity to about 10% and pick a darker colour from the chart.