First Skin

[Hawkwing]

Im having some skinning troubles and I need some help.. This is what I have so far.. What can I do to improve?

The picture came out a little bigger than I had expected... But at least you can see the unwrapped skin better now. =\

 

[THE_END]

AH NONE OF THAT CHAINMAIL!
Do something else besides that horribly abused chainmail
And for the Arthas skin...change the belt buckle and the cape

 

[Hawkwing]

Whats wrong with chainmail.. And I am going to do something on the cape.. Just, what?

Edit: The top one is Scale Mail.. entirley different.. >.<

 

[Elfsilver Lord]

The chainmail sucks, it does not look good. I think that THE_END, Werewulf, and the other skinning mods should tear down their figurines of Archian and burn all evidence of his tutorial.

 

[Hawkwing]

I can remove the chainmail sure.. Now we are done with that what else can I do?

 

[Kimbo]

I have some image steps of chainmail, no text, although it doesnt link like chain mail and looks like circular scales, im sure it will give off a better result than archians example.
Basicly, its a follow on from my scale mail, so you should pick it up easy, just remember to add highlights (near last step)
Remember to add the depth first, like the shading that makes it look like a leg area/cylinder or you are going to get something that looks like archians which is rather flat and unaligned.

 

[THE_END]

Do what Wulf did as the chainmail!
That will look great with some rust and such

 

[Hawkwing]

Okay thanks that looks much better.

I really need to know what to do on the cape of the Stormwind General which is the first texture.

 

[Denu]

When you start a texture make sure you have a predetermined theme and have an idea of what you want to do. And be creative. Do something that wildly changes the skin from what it previously was (I found that it helps to do so when first starting out since it makes you try new things). If you screw up, no biggy. Just learn from your mistakes for your next skin or you can just completely redo your skin if you have a mind to. Ask for help and look at tuts. Just dont overdo it on the tuts cause they only give you one way of doing something. Skinning isn't limmited to any one style.

 

[thisruoy]

Keep the belt buckle
It looks good

 

[THE_END]

The belt buckle is from the standard skin
I WANT SOMETHING NEW!
And for the cape..I don't know, your making the skin, you should have some ideas in your head

 

[CombatTheWombat]

I agree that archians chain-mail tutorial is an abomination and should be totally removed from existence. Werewulfs chainmail looks much more realistic and less flat.

And fix arthas' arms, they have random little circles that look stupid on them.

 

[Hawkwing]

I'll try a big jewel in the middle of his belt. I have seen that on an Uther skin and it looked awsome.

Thanks for the advice.. There is so much I could do on the cloak but this is a Stormwind General I want to do something... Stormwindy..

 

[Hawkwing]

I added a Lordaeron Insignia.. The jewel looks bad so I left it that way..

Now he is a Lordaeron General due to the insignia I chose.. The insignia has team colour and the cape around it is black.

 

[CombatTheWombat]

If you wanna go back to your original storm wind theme you could do some sort of wispy icy looking cloud art on his back. Similar to an akatsuki cloak except blue instead of red.