Skinning human flesh?

[aaron.f]

Hello, I need to skin a human body for an upcoming project. Basically I needa learn how to skin the Villager model, removing his shirt and exposing his half naked body. So far I have not seen any tutorials for creating real human flesh so it would be nice if someone could give me a few pointers.

Thank You

 

[Revolve]

What I did last time I did this, was to look at other textures (Demon Hunter) and tryed to make the body similiar to that one. Look how the shading and lights, muscles etc looks on the Demon Hunter and you should be able to make a very nice texture. Just be sure to not make it way too detailed, wrapping isn't usually so good. :3

 

[GnoobSauce]

Look at a picture of what you're going to texture and follow the shading pattern.
pick a medium, not very saturated flesh tone... like in the middle.
then to shade it, pick a darker more saturated tone and a lighter less saturated tone.
soft brush on low opacity and lay down the basic shading.
you may want to add other tones on a very low opacity to give it more... just detail or whatever.

 

[aaron.f]

Ah, thats a good idea, I took a look at the Beastmaster and Demon Hunter skins and it seems doable. Although the abdomen region may give me some trouble. Thanks for the help!