Skin Shading Guide
By cho0ii
Hello! As many members of the community may know, I make skins in the shading style of SRP. I recently made a little kind of tutorial on how to achieve my personal style of shading, and I wanted to share it with the community!
Please note, I am not claiming this to be the "Right" Way to shade, as there is no right way to shade, it all comes down to your own personal preferences and likes, heck if you want to wear NameMC style skins rather than SRP skins than that is the right style for you! This is just a guide to show players how I personally shade my skins, so if they wish to learn my personal style, or edit and experiment with it, I have this guide here to help them!
The skin guide currently only fleshes out basic shading (Hair, face, legs etc), however I plan to add more in the future along with a guide on picking colours that work well together for your skins!
SHADING GUIDE
1. The forehead area is lighter or the same shade as your base skin tone. This is similar to if you were outside, your forehead would be light, the same color as your skin tone, and in between your eyebrows would be darker because it dips into your head slightly, making it more shadowed.
2. The area by the “jaw” is darker. This is also accurate to real life, as outside the area by your jaw is darker because it again, dips into your face a little. On my example, one side of it is highlighted, this is because I use a general light source on my skins, which comes from the right side ( → this side) of the body.
3. Above the eyes are darker. This is because your eyelashes generally shadow the upper part of your eyes, so that part is usually darker than the rest of your face.
4. Your lashes are always darker than the base of the hair. Lashes in real life are generally darker than your skin and your hair, except for some particular cases (heterochromia iridum, albinism).
5. The front of the hair is darker than the rest.always on skins, the front band of your hair is always darker, why? When you overlay the bangs, if the base color is the same it will be nearly impossible to differentiate where the bangs are going to go, so we make the back of it darker.
6. The sides of the head shading are usually made up of boxes, with light in the middle. Now this isn’t actually how you have to do it, this is how I personally do it. It’s best for shading crucial parts of the hair you experiment yourself with until you find a style you like, but this is generally how I do it. For the sides of the head, I will usually have 6 areas - Darkest (blue), Dark (purple), base (red), light (orange), lighter (yellow, and lightest (white). I usually mix these together into a box shape, until I achieve something that I like.
7. Bangs are usually shaded in strips of light, then strips of dark. Again, no explanation it's just what I personally do, and there's an example to show you how I do it. Try to keep the darkest colors and brightest colors not next to each other.
BODY SHADING!!!
Okay so that's pretty much it for the head, now the body shading I do pretty much the same to the head with some differences.
It’s easier to explain in a diagram so here's a little one for u to understand:
Okay the last thing is legs. Again I apply the lightsource method, and have the light coming from the right side ( → this side) of the body, with a band of light on the right side, dark inbetween the legs and a line of dark in the middle to indicate knees
By cho0ii
Hello! As many members of the community may know, I make skins in the shading style of SRP. I recently made a little kind of tutorial on how to achieve my personal style of shading, and I wanted to share it with the community!
Please note, I am not claiming this to be the "Right" Way to shade, as there is no right way to shade, it all comes down to your own personal preferences and likes, heck if you want to wear NameMC style skins rather than SRP skins than that is the right style for you! This is just a guide to show players how I personally shade my skins, so if they wish to learn my personal style, or edit and experiment with it, I have this guide here to help them!
The skin guide currently only fleshes out basic shading (Hair, face, legs etc), however I plan to add more in the future along with a guide on picking colours that work well together for your skins!
SHADING GUIDE
1. The forehead area is lighter or the same shade as your base skin tone. This is similar to if you were outside, your forehead would be light, the same color as your skin tone, and in between your eyebrows would be darker because it dips into your head slightly, making it more shadowed.
2. The area by the “jaw” is darker. This is also accurate to real life, as outside the area by your jaw is darker because it again, dips into your face a little. On my example, one side of it is highlighted, this is because I use a general light source on my skins, which comes from the right side ( → this side) of the body.
3. Above the eyes are darker. This is because your eyelashes generally shadow the upper part of your eyes, so that part is usually darker than the rest of your face.
4. Your lashes are always darker than the base of the hair. Lashes in real life are generally darker than your skin and your hair, except for some particular cases (heterochromia iridum, albinism).
5. The front of the hair is darker than the rest.always on skins, the front band of your hair is always darker, why? When you overlay the bangs, if the base color is the same it will be nearly impossible to differentiate where the bangs are going to go, so we make the back of it darker.
6. The sides of the head shading are usually made up of boxes, with light in the middle. Now this isn’t actually how you have to do it, this is how I personally do it. It’s best for shading crucial parts of the hair you experiment yourself with until you find a style you like, but this is generally how I do it. For the sides of the head, I will usually have 6 areas - Darkest (blue), Dark (purple), base (red), light (orange), lighter (yellow, and lightest (white). I usually mix these together into a box shape, until I achieve something that I like.
7. Bangs are usually shaded in strips of light, then strips of dark. Again, no explanation it's just what I personally do, and there's an example to show you how I do it. Try to keep the darkest colors and brightest colors not next to each other.
BODY SHADING!!!
Okay so that's pretty much it for the head, now the body shading I do pretty much the same to the head with some differences.
It’s easier to explain in a diagram so here's a little one for u to understand:
Okay the last thing is legs. Again I apply the lightsource method, and have the light coming from the right side ( → this side) of the body, with a band of light on the right side, dark inbetween the legs and a line of dark in the middle to indicate knees
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