Is this bad?

[gleaming radish]

yes it is

very

do you want to improve?

[thin cloud]

yes

[gleaming radish]

alright

[thin cloud]

shading mostly

[gleaming radish]

yes i can help you with that tottally

[thin cloud]

i think the bottom half of his face is bland

[gleaming radish]

give me a second im rushing towards lots of posts

[gleaming radish]

it is

very

[thin cloud]

no rush

[gleaming radish]

looks bad

[thin cloud]

take your time

[gleaming radish]

yes rush

i want to help everyone

[thin cloud]

ok

its appreciated

[gleaming radish]

first thing, i dont recommend using resolutions bigger than 16x16 since its not the resolution that minecraft works with, so it causes it to look weird in game on most of the times

and also 32x32 skins dont load in minecraft iirc

only with mods

so its less appreciable

[thin cloud]

im trying to make a mod

[gleaming radish]

okay fine a mod

[thin cloud]

and i dont like 16x

[gleaming radish]

but it will also look strange when played

[thin cloud]

i think 32 is sweet spot

[thin cloud]

its ok

[gleaming radish]

its something like this you know

it just doesnt fits there

it doesnt conveys with the "aestethics"

i feel dumb saying that word i dislike it

[thin cloud]

maybe if this was orca's mod lol

[gleaming radish]

but thats the easiest way to understand it

[gleaming radish]

it doesnt matters

[thin cloud]

just say "style"

[gleaming radish]

well yeah you get me

it just goes against the style of minecraft

thats why everyone just sticks into 16x16

so i recommend you to do so

here something i see its that you only use 2 tones in the hair

[thin cloud]

should i put really dark purple?

[gleaming radish]

no what?

[thin cloud]

or dark blue

[gleaming radish]

ahhh

hue shifting lie

who teached you that was really wrong

hue shifting doesnt works like that

im tired of that big lie that everyone shares

[thin cloud]

no no bc thats how they drawed venom back in the day

https://tenor.com/view/venom-spiderman-scary-gif-12654982

[gleaming radish]

that hue shifting its just shading everything with purple

[thin cloud]

blue

[gleaming radish]

i didnt knew that character was venom

[thin cloud]

yup

from spiderman

[gleaming radish]

i dont think it changes anything

i would recommend to do that with shaders instead of into the texture

[thin cloud]

its more so for outlining

[gleaming radish]

because the lights appears into the sides

so they would be weird into the texture

since it can be seen on the inner parts

wathever

i would recommend to scrap the texture

but not entirely

like just keep the shapes

[thin cloud]

i dont understand

so just keep the borders?

[gleaming radish]

change every colour into just 1 tone

[thin cloud]

ok

[gleaming radish]

and start again with the shading

with my help

[thin cloud]

now what

[gleaming radish]

alright

somet hings to keep in mind

never use pitch black

never

its a gross colour

it ruins things

[thin cloud]

not even for eyebrows?

[gleaming radish]

and makes everything look bad

[gleaming radish]

i use a slighty colored black for eyebrows

[thin cloud]

so, gray.

[gleaming radish]

that also makes the iris have the sensation of having a colour

[gleaming radish]

nono

what app do you use to texture?

[thin cloud]

blockbench

[gleaming radish]

i dont recommend using blockbench

i would recommend you to use an external app

like paint.net

its a very good one and free

[thin cloud]

i dont know how to use that

[gleaming radish]

download it

[thin cloud]

its loading i think

[gleaming radish]

https://www.getpaint.net/download.html#download

[gleaming radish]

oh ok

[thin cloud]

I cant

[gleaming radish]

what happens?

[thin cloud]

i have mac

[gleaming radish]

ahh

okay fine

i never talked with someone with mac before

yeah paint.net isnt for mac

i didnt expected that

you might be cooked

but anyways

[thin cloud]

im getting a windows

[gleaming radish]

then just stick with blockbench

give me a second

i will open blockbench and start to examinate the gui

so i can help you better

[thin cloud]

ok

[gleaming radish]

i never used blockbench for texturing

[gleaming radish]

when you paint, do you just put the pencil above your model and start like doing a make up to it or you use the uv window for it?

[thin cloud]

on model

[gleaming radish]

alright

what i recommendate the most its to use the uv window

you see that window that appears on the corner top left

[thin cloud]

yes

[gleaming radish]

that has your texture

[gleaming radish]

well you drag it on the middle top

and you have something like this

[thin cloud]

uh huh

[gleaming radish]

and then you just paint into the uv window

its like using paint

or any other application to open your texture

instead of painting on the model like doing makeup you paint into the files

[thin cloud]

ah

ok

[gleaming radish]

did you reducted the texture resolution to 16x16?

i really recommend that now

it will make everything easier and look better

[thin cloud]

https://tenor.com/view/manofsteelzod-general-zod-never-gif-13653396

i will die on this hill

[gleaming radish]

you preffer to die doing bad art or to live doing good art?

you can get out of that hill and get into a higher one

with better things

[thin cloud]

death.

[gleaming radish]

ahg you really are stubborn

[thin cloud]

but i'll change it for right now

to learn

it just wont be in my mod

[gleaming radish]

its alright

so lets imagine this is the shape of your character's hair

im making it gray

to better understanding of you

but ofc you make it black

black matte

its not pitch black

its just a really really dark gray

[thin cloud]

yes

[gleaming radish]

like this

you see it compared with pitch black

[thin cloud]

yes

"old man's gray"

like this?

[gleaming radish]

that matte colour was for the hair

for the eyes i would reccomend using a very dark colour

not black

like dark brown

wait for a second im having a problem

[thin cloud]

ok

[gleaming radish]

this app is stressing me

alright i fixed it

alright so like we have the hair

[thin cloud]

uh huh

[gleaming radish]

so what i would do now its to divide it in segments

you see

like i used a more darker colour

to divide them

[thin cloud]

mhm

[gleaming radish]

then with a brighter colour you add lights to the hair

always following the segment divisions

like continuing the lines

[thin cloud]

is the light grey skin? or hair

[gleaming radish]

skin

im teaching you to do hair now

so the skin is gray

[thin cloud]

alr

[gleaming radish]

so it doesnt gets into the way

[thin cloud]

im still on this step rn

[gleaming radish]

then you can add a highlight

and thats how you make a messy hair

i would also recommend to using colours with a bit of saturations

because pure gray black white or any of those tones its also gross

[gleaming radish]

it depends on the rest of your skin

like for example in mine, my skin its primarly orange and with warm colours, so the suit that should be black and gray, i made it be somekind of yellowish brown

to keep with the warmth colours

[thin cloud]

i got you

[gleaming radish]

show me pics

[thin cloud]

I have to start over

[gleaming radish]

?!

[thin cloud]

I missed a square

[gleaming radish]

https://tenor.com/view/one-piece-chopper-chopper-one-piece-crying-crying-meme-gif-26577246

[thin cloud]

https://tenor.com/view/brook-crying-one-piece-gif-22926715

first square done

[gleaming radish]

im not telling you to copy pixel by pixel

[thin cloud]

Oh

Good

Im moving like a snail rn

done

[gleaming radish]

change those colours

try to make the colours be like a gradient

not just a hard change from dark gray to super light gray

[thin cloud]

like this?

[gleaming radish]

much better

you learned good

look, you still have lots to learn

but i thin k that the time will teach you

but this is a big step

so you can continue now with the face and skin ofc

and also the top part of the hair

its always a bit messy

[thin cloud]

alright cool

eyebrows or no?

steve doesnt have them

[gleaming radish]

eyebrows arent very weird

i think they look good

[thin cloud]

well then this is the final result

[gleaming radish]

better than the first

[thin cloud]

so do I shade the skin?

[gleaming radish]

exactly

[thin cloud]

Sweet I’ll download it