Character texturing

“Character Texturing ” by Julian Johnson-Mortimer
Now i’m going to go though all the layers i’ve used, some have hardly no effect but they all add up to a nice varied skin texture I guess.
Right marked in red is layer 28. (if your a organized person by the way you might want to consider about naming and colour coding all your layers 😉 ) but I cant the bothered.
For layer 28 i’ve painted light colour spots using a simple custom brush I made, then i’ve used lighten with opacity at 20% so you can just barely see them. On the right i’ve pasted in a picture of the opacity turned right up so you can see them.

Now a layer of dark spots made again just by using a custom brush. then multiplied.

Next layer lots of random light skin tones then, layer set to lighten at 20% opacity, i’ve lightened the area on the left of course so you can see then.

Next up a reddish tone adding a bit more variation and colour.

Next up, loads more tiny spots, a custom brush again and layer lightened with a very low opacity so you can just barely see them.

Now a layer of small darker spots layer set to multiply.

Sorry, but its another spot layer.

Next up there’s some stubble layers this was made just with a black layer then diffused to make the dots then erased in the areas I did not want them.

I know, lets add some more spots. 🙂

More spots. These where painted on top of the spots on my spot bump map layer if you can remember it

On this layer I painted some soft blue tones then multiplied you should be able to see the effect they achieve.

Now a vein layer , your hardly even see these if at all, but it gives the impression of something under the skin. you could pick out one or two that looked the best and copy then on to another layer and make them stronger.
Then use the same vein layer on the bump map using colour dodge to make a slight bump where the vein is.

Now for a few small random veins here and there.

I’ve added some scaring, the characters face is actually meant to be covered in scars but i’ll see how it looks before I add more.

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