Hello. I am Essentialess, and this is my guide.
This guide will show you how to shade the FLESH of your Minecraft roleplay skin.
This guide will show you how to shade the FLESH of your Minecraft roleplay skin.
If you are new to skinning I also reccomend the following tutorials:
The program I use during this tutorial is McSkin3D, the predecessor to PMC's in-website skinning tool.
Step 1. Choose your base color.
→ For human flesh, I choose a color within the drawn box and pick something with medium saturation.
Step 2. Outline the shape of the face
Step 3. Add shadows to the corners of your outline
→ THERE'S BLOOD UNDERNEATH THE FLESH.
→ When picking your shadow color, choose something with a reddish undertone.
→ When picking your shadow color, choose something with a reddish undertone.
(IT DOES NOT MATTER IF YOUR CHARACTER BLEEDS "GOLDEN ICHOR" OR WHATEVER)
→ You'll notice for the deepest skin, I use something purple for the blushiness. Don't be afraid to dip into that range, it'll still look brown.
Step 4. Increase lightness towards the center
→ Once you have the first two colors down, this is the last step.
→ I do the same thing no matter what part of the flesh I'm skinning: darker on the corners, lighter towards the middle.
→ When shading skin, I make it lighter in SMALL increments. It's easy to over do it, I only go very bright for the highlight (I talk about this in my original tutorial)
→ I do the same thing no matter what part of the flesh I'm skinning: darker on the corners, lighter towards the middle.
→ When shading skin, I make it lighter in SMALL increments. It's easy to over do it, I only go very bright for the highlight (I talk about this in my original tutorial)
→ You can do different shapes and patterns for your character's face based on the outline
→ Still keep the darkest shadows on the cheeks, forehead, and sometimes the lips.
→ Still keep the darkest shadows on the cheeks, forehead, and sometimes the lips.
→ The shape of the hair and eyes is what makes your character look more unique, but the way you shade the face is the same!
→ But, for the darker part, pick something that's only slightly warm. Don't just darken the color. Still do small increments when going lighter.
→ If the character is blue or green, I still shift the wheel towards something warmer to do the shadow. But, because it's fantasy there's a huge range. You can mostly do whatever.
→ Avoid neon colors, and pick a color with more white in it if you want to do pastels.
(I don't have a closer. I hope this was helpful)
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