Look under the tutorials section, you'll find lots of help there. Also most people are trying for a more tactile look to the textures, like if you touched it you would feel the bumps and scars and whatever. This is done using a bump map, which gets rid of the plastic look. Also look at the lighting and reflection settings these can also cause a plastic look. I don't know what the rgb values would be for the different tones to skin color, I think we are all so different you should just experiment. What I've done is downloaded free texture maps from here and other sites to look at to see how they did it. Lots of people here will jump in to help you but you will have to do a lot of reading and experimenting on your own as well. Best way to do it is to grab Photoshop or Paintshop Pro or whatever paint program you are using and experiment, but make sure you save your original template, and save as you go along. Layers in a paint program save me because I can make little changes that way without destroying the whole thing if I mess it up. It's hard for people to know how to help without knowing how much you already know about the paint program you are using to create the textures. Don't give up though, there is a lot of info out there. Marque