N00bie skinner

Hello! I'm experienced with the editor, but even though I've always wanted to try skinning, I never have. I did however begin trying a few days ago. Tell me what you think. I know it's...well...not awesome...but I thought it was somewhat good considering that I've never skinned before. Maybe you could also give me tips on how to make it look better? :D I'm trying to give the blood mage a venom/poison theme. I'm a quick learner, so teach me! :ggani: Oh, um, don't mind that messed-up-ness on the right one, my wc3viewer seems to do that to my snapshots from time to time....if anyone knows how to prevent that. :bgrun:

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Here's a good tip, use the Burn and Dodge tool, in fact, abuse it. Set the exposure on each from 10 - 40, and it's amazing at making nearly anything, ranging from nice cloths to scales to armor, really, to anything, they are a great tool which should be used in a pair. Read some of the tutorials, they generally point out on how to make good use of them.

More green...he has WAY too much red on him now. He looks a bit sick...and u need to give his hair another color, right now he looks like he threw up on his hair :P

Try making the hair black, to contrast the green, same with the edges, black like the cape. Keep working on it, think it could be great :)

Also, try, in his face, to enhance some veins with green and burn them.

Ahh, another triumph! However, like Zachary_Shadow said, needs a little more green.

Thx for the compliments; it helps me want to try harder to make it look better and whatnot. :D I'm just...not sure about one thing...how do I go about making his hair black without losing the texture (like the lines and stuff that keep it looking like hair) ? emote_confused Do I airbrush it or something? emote_confused Thx :D

There are more ways to do that, but the easiest one, for beginners, is to change the color of the hair...ehh

Use the marquee tool to select all the hair

Go to Image -> Adjustments -> Hue/Saturation

Now play around with the different bars, setting them low is dark, high is bright. This way, you can adjust the color in your selection, to what you want it to be.

Hard way, would be to draw the hair again and use the burn tool. This will in the end look alot better, but is also alot harder and takes longer.

yes i agree if you do not use the dodge/burn tool ull find ur skin lookin odd and well crap... so look at some tutorials and learn to use the dodge and burn tool a bit more...

once u learn those it will be interesting on what ur next skin will look like.