Clothing Tutorial

[Mechanical Man]

i r noob at making skins. Can somebody give me tips or make a tutorial for making clothes and folds, so I will not continue to make that crap. It seems like it was under heavy storm lol.

You look at the skin at your own risk!

 

[Kimbo]

mind posting in good quality jpeg? i cant be bothered dling and then opening the bmp.

 

[Mechanical Man]

Oh! I did not know that attaching .jpg would show the image. Anyway look at the jacket part.

 

[Kimbo]

it looks okay to me, just set your brush to a small size and low opacity of a very dark orange or red and draw line on it (not randomly) but you know what i mean, so it looks like a clothe.

 

[Mechanical Man]

And where should I draw the line?

 

[Kimbo]

well look at the some cloth stuff and you will see.. its kinda hard to explain... just dont do it exactly horizontial or vertical.

 

[Mechanical Man]

This what I managed to do. It is good enough to use on my model?

 

[Kimbo]

hmm..looks better...well abit...not much difference...but still very nice..
just increase the opacity abit more, i cant really see the line much. and try to have the lines close meaning, make alot.

 

[falcoknight]

EASY WAY:

Fill in completely mid-dark grey. Then take a one pixel black brush and just go across in whatever folds. Then smudge across. Tada, it looks amazing. Believe me, thats how i do clothes.

 

[Kimbo]

smudge=evil
falco=evil
evil=bad( not as in sucks...but as in..like..satan )
:x

you can do what i said, or do what falco said..up to you.

 

[Mechanical Man]

Why you pros hate smudge tool so much? What do use as an alternative?

 

[Kimbo]

um..you just draw without smudge.........thats the alternative.
and some pros use it becuase they know how to use it properly.

 

[Mechanical Man]

But you cannot make interchanging colors just with a pencil. I mean, if the color pass from dark red to light red, you cannot make smooth edges without the aid of appropriate tool. If you go pixel per pixel, it will take months. I do not know how these things look in photo or paint shop, I use GIMP.

 

[HappyTauren]

no, there's no need for pencil nor smudge. use brushes, every pro (and me not being pro) uses brushes. Set them transparency abit to tone two colours more realsiticly...(omg my english )

 

[Kimbo]

..why the heck would you use the pencil tool?..just use brush, try to stick with the defualt circle brush though and only use the texture brushes for texture work..well..as in thats my advice though.

 

[Mechanical Man]

Skin updated

Now I added those belts and the back

 

[camel's_hump]

The folds are blurry and unrealistic. Think how the cloth would fold around the straps pushing down on it. They would flow around it, not just be random things. If you want to make higher quality skins I suggest you stop using dodge and burn, stop smudging, and learn to shade with colors. This way you can control what colors you can put into a skin, and reduce the amounts of monotone parts.

 

[Mechanical Man]

Can you show me the bad parts?
I have always been antitalented for drawing.

Another question: How can I make to have the red part team color, but not just monotone, so it will include folds and shadows? Like BlinkBoy's model.

 

[falcoknight]

I use smudge all the time, but its not for smoothing out things, believe me, doing clothes is easy when you cheat.

Werewulf = Werewolf
Werewolves = Bad

 

[Kimbo]

Mechanical Man, you will need to alpha, basically.. just use the black and white to tone your way... i suck at ...making sense..
...
and..falco..
o.0

 

[Mechanical Man]

Maybe it would be a better idea to create the model first, unwrap unfinished skin and only then finish it.