Hiya Clissold, Nice work for starting. I won't even post some of my very first poser efforts. ;] A lot of people like photoreal textures, some of us like painted textures. It depends a lot on what effect your trying to create, and what renderer you're using. Since I do my rendering in Bryce 4, I tend to go for a painted look in my images that Bryce does nicely. Open up and examine some of the better hand done free textures: Bebop's, Tim Laubauch's, and the Shari texture by [can't remember the maker]. Your dad should have links for some of those sites... if not, I'll try and hunt them up for you. All of the people I mentioned do excellent work on range of skin tones in texturing. Studying them, and then taking them into poser and rendering them under different lights will give you a lot of input on how the various skin shadings show up on a model. Also... don't give up. Some of us have been doing this for a while. We did NOT get good overnight - I'm sure I'm not the only one with a LOt of practice attempts on my harddrive. Best of luck and I'll look forward to seeing your work as you progress. ;]

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