Also, for more user configuration
cp -r /usr/share/awesome/themes/ ~/.config/awesome/
Then fire up your editor, open ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua and change
theme_path = /home/yourusername/.config/awesome/themes/default/theme
You can comment out the old default path with 2 hyphens. (--)
Also, for more user configuration
cp -r /usr/share/ awesome/ themes/ ~/.config/awesome/
Then fire up your editor, open ~/.config/ awesome/ rc.lua and change
theme_path = /home/yourusern ame/.config/ awesome/ themes/ default/ theme
You can comment out the old default path with 2 hyphens. (--)