Hey guys, many people has asked how i make my skins, and since im really really lazy, i didnt bother making a video so heres a picture/text tutorial :3

First of all id like to say that i first use Skinedit to make the skin itself and then Gimp for shading. Another awesome program for skinning is McSkin3D which you can find here.

This tutorial i am going to show you guys how i make my skins and more specifically how i made my despicable me. The result can be found here.

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First, I take all the colors im gonna use and put it into the box where it says head.




Then i make the skin itself in Skinedit(with no shading), I use Skinedit for this so i can see how the skin will look on the 3D preview on PMC. McSkinedit is awesome for preview aswell!



And then, I save the skin and upload it onto gimp where i start to shade



This is how i shade:

Step 1: Take the pencil tool

Step 2. Choose the color you are going to shade on, in my case blue, and make it darker, like in my case, Darkblue like i have it on the picture below.

Step 3. Drag down the opacity to around 10, in my case 11,3.

Step 4. Draw once, and it gets a bit darker. Draw on that spot again and it will get even darker.



Now ive shaded the body.



Now ive shaded the whole skin.



Now this is very important when shading, these areas should be darker because they get shadows by other areas.



Now another good tip when shading is that when something that is located ontop of something or on something, like a Top hat or the head ontop of the body, under it, its supposed to be darker, simulating that the head or the top hat is leaving a shadow below it. :)

Final Picture



So heres a link to the final skin; www.planetminecraft.com/skin/despicable-me-minion/