This is how you make skins the right way. most people use TOO MUCH or NO contrast/shading. for those of you who have really bad taste in skins or are just plain stupid, heres a fucking tutorial. not saying my skins are ultra incredibly amazing awesomeness, but from what ive seen, most of you need some help.

SKINNING FOR DUMMIES:

First off, you want your skin to fit in with the minecraft world. too much contrast can cause this effect to diminish, and no contrast or shading will also cause this effect to diminish. here's an example of a skin that uses about as much contrast as the minecraft world:



see what i mean? Here's a palette example:



alright now that we got contrast done, lets go on to saturation:

NEVER USE TOO MUCH SATURATION.

too much saturation can look strange and create even more contrast than you have alreayd made, if you haven't been reading this post. so do yourself a favor, and scroll up and read if you haven't. read it? good! here's another palette example:



get my drift? cool! alright, here's shading patterns:

MAKE THE PATTERNS DYNAMIC! dont just stripe different darker colours under their lighter ones, make it shift a bit! cloth isnt a solid piece of metal bent on one axis and straight on the other! its a wiggly-jiggly floppy-woppy piece of crazy wonder. even if you are doing metal, give it a bit of weathering! The max amount of "layers" you should do in shading is 3. that means you should have a darkest, darker, dark, and base color lining, on cloth. when doing metal shading, you can do as many layers as you see fit. here's an example of metal weathering, and one of correct shading on metal. just ermove the bottom 4 layers of darkness and you'd get cloth shading:

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That ought to cover the basics! happy skinning! if you need any more advice no one asked for, PM me.

Examples of not enough shading and contrast:

www.planetminecraft.com/skin/venom-skin-with-headset/

www.planetminecraft.com/skin/girl-2195538/

www.planetminecraft.com/skin/a-gamer-2195123/

Examples of too much shading and contrast:

www.planetminecraft.com/skin/cute-maid/

www.planetminecraft.com/skin/spiderman-2195255/

www.planetminecraft.com/skin/bestia-glcies/ (i dont care it won second in the arctic contest, its still overdone)

Examples of well done shading and contrast:

www.planetminecraft.com/skin/justinmellotv/

www.planetminecraft.com/skin/sheriff-obadiah-coppercuff/

www.planetminecraft.com/skin/protoman-covered-face/