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As a skinner what do I look for? What do I want to communicate? What do I want you to feel? I ask myself every time I make a skin.
Do I make a skin because I enjoy it? Yes. Do I make a skin because I need it? No. I try and communicate myself throughout my skins… I think a skin should show your emotion, not your skills. The skills may make the skin, but your personality makes it unique. Colour, shapes and pixels… that’s what makes a skin, but who makes the skin? You. Me & Everyone. Anyone who has the ability to create or to think using their imaginations can make a skin, or a texture pack. It may take time as I keep saying practice and strong will will get you somewhere. How you define yourself should be shown in your work but you must not think you are 'it.'
Tutorials: Why I won't create one
People ask me “how do you do this?.” I can’t answer that. As that would be putting my opinion and ways forward to you, and that’s not how you should see things. As I was thinking about making a skin tutorial I felt puzzled. How do I write what I do? This is what I kept asking myself, but I didn’t come with an answer as I couldn’t make a skin with that method. Sure, if you give me an idea or a request I can make a skin, but if you ask someone how they do it you will never get ‘one’ answer. That’s what makes us human, we do things in different ways that we can’t underline a certain method as we are all different, even though we are all the same thing that is divided from our pod. I can't communicate for you on what you'd like to produce, only you can as your imagination, your mind could be greater with different events and hobbies roaming around in there. This is because we are different.
You shouldn’t compare yourself and things you make to other members. Even though you may get judged in a Contest or lose in a Skin Battle, those things should apply to you getting better and to strive to understand where you went wrong, but to say you are not as good as the next person shouldn’t be applied. I know many skinners who are judgemental of their work, but should that be a bad thing? No. I don’t see tutorials as a bad thing, as I have looked and reviewed them to help myself when I wanted to try something and then make it my own in a unique way.
Contests and my view
The Contests, do I think they are fair? No. As I think technique is different and can not be judge in a piece of art and that’s what a skin is. Art. If I painted with a stick and another person painted with a brush who would get the better technique? Me for using a stick? Or the man using a typical paint brush? I would still join the Contests as I find them fun, and I like the idea of everyone applying their own skin to one theme. It’s like a world growing on our doorstep.
Communication and Willing to Change
Communicating yourself into your work will help you to understand what you are willing to create, help you to further your skills, your use of colour and the organization of where to place things. When it becomes something of your own that you are willing to present to the world you have to appreciate how it is made so others can appreciate with you. What is the point of showing something you hate of you then something you are proud of, that's just stupid. If you are proud of what you've made you and someone an opinion on it, that it could do with more work you should appreciate their views and then should appreciate your personality towards the skin or whatever you are creating. Change is a big part of making, such as is life as we all change. You shouldn't be afraid to update a skin, because everything needs to adapt to become greater, so you and your audience can appreciate it.
To define yourself is a hard thing to do because we always change, we live to adapt, or opinions change, our lives change. We lose and we gain, we can never have the same outcome from life to death. To define your art and your movements will change and I suggest you always try something new when it comes to making a skin. Don't let your ego put you down, if you do not make something new relatable to someone you've not failed and if you stop trying your ability to create will subside.
How do I start a skin?
With me, I start off with an idea, or a colour and think “what could this become?” And then I make it. I don’t have a plan or a whole drawing-board of skins… I just do what I think communicates me and my personality. How I feel at the time may make the skin’s outcome different each time, however I will always put that Paint_Bucket feel. Yes, this is not a tutorial, this is a load of writing telling you that you shouldn’t base your skins on someone else’s templates or style, try and communicate yourself, no one else can for you. As you are unique and should keep going.
- Paint
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I will probably make the point I'm trying to make more explainable, but I was writing this at 1am. Thanks for your comment :)