Skinning related Question

[xXm0RpH3usXx]

Hey folks...

I'm trying to really get into skinning, but i cant seem to quite figure it all out...

Things i did:
Made a color palette (took 7 skintones from the grunt)
Sketched in the colors


So now i need to blend them...
Smudge is a big nono, so i wanted to use the altclick, click combination, but somehow i dont really seem to blend them well, somehow when i pick up a color and paint it in the seams get even worse...

Do you have a special fading out brush? Which settings do u use?
Can someone plz help me?

I mean, I'm not one of these newbs, it would be well invested time...

Added a picture from where i am right now:

 

[Elfsilver Lord]

To blend color, I use highlights and shading to make the two colors near equals. Also, smudge with large brushes and 0% hardness works well. Just place the brush over the area and apply say 10-20% pressure.

 

[Hawkwing]

Try not to use a 100% opacity brush. Stay high, but don't use 100%. Also, learn to vary the colours on your own using the Color Picker, not just the Eyedropper tool.

 

[xXm0RpH3usXx]

Also, learn to vary the colours on your own using the Color Picker, not just the Eyedropper tool.

which is which?

i used the pipet on an opened grunt texture to get myself the base color, 3 darker tones and 3 higher tones and saved them all in my palette.

then i get myself a soft brush with 100% opacity and sketch in the rough shadows and highlights

then i get myself a soft brush, set the opacity down (how much?) and go in between the colours where they already blend adn try to make them blend smoother whith always going along the seams with alt and click, clickdrag, altclick, clickdrag and so on...
do you use a big or small brush for that?

i'm rly sry, i guess i make it too hard for myelf

and hawk, youre the only one giving me constant crits here, i wanna thank you...
do you maybe have msn or something? (pm would be nice)

 

[Elfsilver Lord]

Personally, I use a 25% opacity with various different shades. Don't use black for shading, instead, use a very very dark nearly black of that color. Same with whites. Also, if you need a lighter shadow, just move lighter up the color picker. When you use low opacity, its really easy to blend colors, since you have waaay more control. Problem is, the less opacity you have, the more time it takes for every single stroke to become as visible as you want it. Stay between 10-40.

 

[Hawkwing]

The eyedropper takes colours from images whereas the Colour Picker is what you use to manually create colours.

 

[xXm0RpH3usXx]

Personally, I use a 25% opacity with various different shades. Don't use black for shading, instead, use a very very dark nearly black of that color. Same with whites. Also, if you need a lighter shadow, just move lighter up the color picker. When you use low opacity, its really easy to blend colors, since you have waaay more control. Problem is, the less opacity you have, the more time it takes for every single stroke to become as visible as you want it. Stay between 10-40.

thats helpfzull, thanks...
i never used black or white, and with the last try i even took the colours from the grunt!

so, which brush do you use?
i feel that if its too big i get a blob, and if its too small its getting covered with wales -.-'
and somehow the standard fading out brushes arent cool at all in lower sizes, as the fading out area becomes too small and therefore the blending is (like stated above) not well...

i'll post a progress screenshot on the orc slave driver model thread over in he animation/modeling section, maybe you want to help me and tell me what the next steps would be?

 

[ike_ike]

Blegh? If you're using a tablet, it's safe to leave it on 100% opacity, and a lot faster. Just remember to set opacity to pen pressure (this took me a month to work out. Eheheheh)

Manually picking the colours helps too. The largest brush I use is 19 pixels, and that's only for blocking in chunks. The rest is 5 or 3 pixels, except for REALLY tiny things like the centre of runes, which are scrawled in with a 1 pixel brush.

 

[Hawkwing]

(this took me a month to work out. Eheheheh)

Lol! It's not incredibly obvious, but you'll stumble upon it eventually.