Road Map To This Blog:

IF...
...you want to become a good skinner, read on!
...you want to leave a diamond, click the diamond button!
...you want to make this blog a favorite, good for you!  Click the favorite button!
...you want to complain about how endermen constantly ruin your stuff, please leave this blog page.  I happen to be a rather large fan of ender creatures.


PART ONE: THE HARD DECISION

First, you want to decide what you want your skin to be about.  This is entirely up to you to decide.  Create rough sketches in your mind, then add onto that.  If you want a design that already exists style, such as a skin of the Master Chief from Halo, you can look up designs on the internet.

PART TWO: GETTING THE RIGHT PROGRAMS

For everyone, different programs work better.  Personally, I like MCSkin3D.  I will leave a link for it at the bottom.  However, other programs, such as Gimp, also work.

THE FAKE PART THREE: GETTING BORED

You can finally work on your skin!  Can you do it yet?  Sorry, you can't.  A computer virus infects your computer, and you have to start from scratch all over again!  Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Okay, this is not an actual step in creating a good skin.  However, I have created at least ten skins, though I have not posted all ten.  Six times, my computer crashed during some process of making the skin.  Twice, I lost a skin that I had just completed.  I finished, ready to upload it, and then the computer crashed, forcing me to start all over again.  IT WAS SO ANNOYING...

THE REAL PART THREE: GETTING STARTED AND RETHINKING PLANS
 
The worst part about the skin is getting started.  Although you have the plans formed, transforming your idea into a figure of cubes and rectangular priisms consisting of square pixels may not work.  It may be necessary to go back and tweek your figure to fit the requirements of Minecraft.  At this point, you might even need to go back to part one!  I have done this plenty of times.  If you are new to making skins, the only thing that I really have to say is get used to it.  I'm sorry if it sounds harsh, but there's not much else that I can do or say.  It happens almost every time I try to make a skin.  About half of my ideas do not become what I first imagined they would become.  It's not often that a person is not faced with this problem of rethinking plans.

PART FOUR: CREATING YOUR SKIN

After you get an idea that is workable, start to lay out the rough outlines to your skin.  A skin is only as good as its maker.  Use colors that suit the mood.  Do not use neon colors except they belong.  Using neon colors to make your skin flashy does not always work.  Sometimes, the duller colors can characterize a skin better than the brighter ones.  I'm not saying just to use dull colors.  I'm just saying that you should stick with colors that suit the mood.  Using neon colors does not always earn you diamonds on Planet Minecraft.

PART FIVE: UPLOADING YOUR SKIN

At this point, I am assuming that you want to upload your skin to Planet Minecraft.  I'm not saying you have to upload it.  I'm just suggesting it.
The first thing to do is give your skin a catchy title.  Without a catchy title, people will probably scroll down past your skin without giving it a glance unless it looks that good.   Make sure that the title also is related to your skin.
Next, leave a good background story.  Most people don't mind reading a good story.  Then of course, I am also an avid reader, so this statement is a little biased.
Finally, leave any tags that you believe relate to your skin.  Tags can describe colors of your skin, what your skin can do, the epicness of your skin, etc...

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Thanks for reading my tutorial!

To find MCSkin3D, go to:
www.planetminecraft.com/mod/mcskin3d/