How do you skin cloths?

[madcat2]

mine always comes out looking like hair xP.

 

[Monopoly_Party]

Depends on what the theme is like metal, leather etc. Which one do you wanna know how to skin?

 

[madcat2]

leather is the one that never comes out looking right, so i guess that one.

 

[Kwaliti]

For leather, fill your part with your desired color, then take medium sized brushes of dodge and burn that are set on highlights and then shade. You'll see that with little experimenting, you can get awesome leather.

 

[Monopoly_Party]

Hmm, thats one way you could do leather. My way of doing it is totally different. First you add noise and then u use a brush of opacity 20% and dab on the sides.
Then you put scratches by using the burn and dodge at 90% opacity.
And then after ur done u make a new layer and put a pattern in and flatten the image. Make sure you dont set the opacity too high so the pattern is noticed, just set it so u can just see it. I recommend 20%-25% opacity.

Oh yea and remember to pick where you want your light to be. Hope you know what i mean.

 

[CombatTheWombat]

Monopoly has some good points, but there is something I feel needs to be pointed out. Leather has a smooth side and a rough side. When you look closely at the smooth side of a piece of leather, it almost appears to have large scale-like things on it that are a result of it being folded. Make sure to use very very thin lines of a darker color than the rest of it, and smudge them in a little to make them look like creases. And the rough side of leather almost looks like a little brown forest, using a few dark spots and light spots almost like salt and pepper right on top of everything Monopoly said can add a little more depth and realistic flair to your leather.