Thekala-Jaina Skin

Well i went to the zoo the otherday and decided to make a tiger skin, ill submit it to the contest if it doesnt gross people out








Couldent do anything with the cape realy, but the hair those are suppose to be braids, free handed the shoulder yet im not realy satsified with it.

MAde Some edits to the cape a little more work on the shoulder changed the staff abit

I'll let the more experienced skinners to take this one... BTW, you double-posted! That has costed me much in the past, I don't suggest you let it this way!

Mutalating that poor woman with sanding paper does not make her a tiger.

Please Expand, i didnt think i mutalated her, are you saying it does not look anything like a tiger or what? Suggestions on what to changed.....Also what do you mean

No offence, but it looks like her face was burned and somehow still survived. Also, you should choose more carefully your color scheme. Brown hairs + green = bad. It's almost everything (very saturated) red. In the distance, it'll look like a demonic spellcaster or something.

The question is: do YOU think that looks like a tiger?

IMO, the skin looks really messy and blurry, just like the other one you made recently. And what are those green dots in the hair? You still need a lot of practice.

Thank you for the imput, I know i'm a nub, and it realy doesnt look that great,
Now questions.

-How do i make it less blurry-For some reason it ends up like that often, yet last time used filters for the hair and here i used a the Dune grass method?(looked better IMO)
-How can i make color seperate if i put them together like red and orange i want them to not blend together so it looks like the one thing?

Those green dots are suppose to be beads, yea, i know noticed they don't fit.
and i do need to desatuate it, its a WIP thanks for the imput, every little bit helps, even knowing you didnt like it

I use the sharpen filter to get rid of the blurriness

Also look at some of the resources on here. There is an infinite amount of tutorials and more than one tells how to do a proper fur texture

Its one thing reading a tutorial a diffrent one figuring out how to do it well, if a skill was learned just by reading it, every one would make there own skins for every things, I'm just learning trying to apply as many skills to practice and see what i need to work on.

im prolly going to get slapped by someone or another for saying this but dodge smudge and burn can be your friends!

Oh and tutorials are kind of a pain to read through however I would suggest checking out the Skinning techniques thread it has great examples of techniques like hair and fur and armor

Burn is generally not a smart tool to use on skins with a high red content. Dodge, Burn and Smudge -Can- be useful when using a mouse, but must be very carefully controlled.