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Communities/Skinning Why are un-shaded skins frowned down upon?
Xiff
• 06/19/2013 6:02 am
• Level 36 : Artisan Skinner

I don't think all skins require shading but I'm not a fan of large plain blocks of color on my skins. For me (and I'm sure most skinners) my skins start out with flat colors and then I add shading and highlights as needed. It's just part of the process. I don't feel like they are done til they are shaded.

I do prefer shaded skins over non-shaded but there are also a lot of different ways I've seen skins shaded and I'm not a fan of all of them. So whether or not a skin is shaded has no bearing on how well a skin may have been made.

As for if someone likes a skin or not, that all falls under each person's preference. So those that like shading will like shading, those that don't wont, and those that can appreciate both will do so. That's pretty much all there is to it.
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Communities/Skinning New to skinning {Help what program do i use?}
Xiff
• 02/04/2013 9:22 pm
• Level 36 : Artisan Skinner

I use MCSkin3D to do simple colors on a skin, do most of my shading in Photoshop (GIMP will work), then check it every once in a while back in MCSkin3D. It's tedious but it lets me see any mistakes I might be making quickly.
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Communities/Skinning Be Recognized! Show Everyone Your Awesome Skins!
Xiff
• 08/27/2012 5:39 am
• Level 36 : Artisan Skinner

Did a skin from Spiral Knights. It's the art director's custom avatar named Cherub.

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PMC/Events Book/Movie Skin Contest Discussion Thread
Xiff
• 07/25/2012 6:27 pm
• Level 36 : Artisan Skinner

I'm a little disappointed I didn't make the cut, but oh well. Better luck next time I guess.
Good luck to all the finalists.
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Communities/Artists Drawdering!
Xiff
• 07/24/2012 8:42 am
• Level 36 : Artisan Skinner

Was messing around on iScribble for a little bit on a pen only board.
Came out with this weird purple sky thing then drew a dead tree in front of it.

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PMC/Events Book/Movie Skin Contest Discussion Thread
Xiff
• 07/21/2012 11:37 pm
• Level 36 : Artisan Skinner

Yeah I kind of agree with that Kefka. Both categories are quite expansive. I would of loved a just book competition. I feel like there would have been a much more varied selection of submissions.

We'd still have a million Harry Potter skins and most of the superhero skins would still be there since most of them have comic books...

Actually, it might not be that different.
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PMC/Events Book/Movie Skin Contest Discussion Thread
Xiff
• 07/20/2012 2:14 pm
• Level 36 : Artisan Skinner

Not surprisingly I'm seeing a whole lot of Starwars, Harry Potter, numerous anime/manga skins,Captain America, Spiderman, various other comic book hero's, and then far too many video game, TV show characters and nonsense skins.

I was pleasantly surprised to see a few Discworld skins in the contest though, and a George Romero skin. But I think my favorite entry has to be the skin of Baron Von Munchausen. I just never expected to see that.
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Communities/Skinning Be Recognized! Show Everyone Your Awesome Skins!
Xiff
• 07/19/2012 12:58 am
• Level 36 : Artisan Skinner

My three newest skins since joining PMC.

Female ninja for ZombieBoobz

Everdred from the SNES game Earthbound

Urza Planeswalker from the Magic the Gathering series for the Book/Movie contest.
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