Heyas, I'd like to start a few threads over the next few months on how to airbrush skintextures and doing Lighting and camera angels ,useing other apps and post work for your renders and do each subject step by step,in the forums so newbies can ask questions and have answers while they learn.Well i'll start tomorrow .right now I have to go to work.And any one feel free to start one of the subjects threads and start answering questions.And giving a step by step on how you create your images and made it to the top 20, Belive it or not when I first started I used to be in the top 20 regularly. Well till tomorrow, cheers ,Ecstasy. Oh before I start ,Let me know your thoughts.And Dont forget the Gothic Challenge too!

I just wanted to say THANK YOU! I have been hoping for a really good tutorial on airbrushing textures! Again thanks sooooooooo much

I'll look forward to this. Thank you.

I'll really appreciate it also, thank you

Ecstasy, Any chance I can talk you into also posting in the texturing forum? Pretty please? I only bite on request :) Lyrra

Sounds good to me, Ecstasy! I love your textures and use them regularly. Thanks for offering, and count me in! Briggie

Now this is the kind of summer school I'll enjoy ;-)

2.Select the paint bucket next,Fill the new layer with the darkest color you've selected.Make sure now that you've filled the new layer with the darkest color and not the background image ,because your going to set the new layer's opacity to around 90% or 95% just enough to where you can see the template,4.After you've done this you will need to start painting your base tones Its best to work from dark to light building layers of color with the airbrush tool gradualy lightning each hue and select a smaller brush size as I go.5.Im only going to do half of the head and then copy the half I do and paste it and flip it horizontaly.

opps this shouldve came after tread 30...sorry not used to doing this ...

Rember to save your Finnished texture in a jpeg format :high quality ,so all your details show up.Then create a new folder in your runtime folder and call it what ever you like,But I suuggest calling it my textures.

Ecstacy, Many thanks! And by posting it here, you'll probably reach more people. The majority might not be able to make their own textures, even with such step-by-step breakdowns of your technique, but they might gain more of an appreciation for how texturing is done, and how much time it takes to get it right. Carolly

The lip brush you mentioned, is it available for d/l? Thanks for this great tutorial!!

This is a wonderfully detailed tut. My only wish is that it was easy to print out. ~G~ I'll book mark this though. Thanks soo much. Somethings I went..duh... why of course, Why didn't I think of that. I've tried many times to make a half decent texture. So far nothing worth seeing. maybe now I'll have better luck.

WOW! Thank you so much Ecstasy, this is just the type of tut I've been needing! Now maybe I can give my Tablet it spin or two! You are so awsome to take your time to share this (and the wonderful textures you've posted in the past). THANK YOU!!