Ersalin – How to Make And USE an HD Minecraft Skin! FULL HD! COMPLETE TUTORIAL! (1.8+)

Almost got it don’t forget to subscribe hi everyone my name is ursuline you can call me ursa and today we’re going over how i make my hd skins just like the ones you see going across your screen right now these are all skins that i have made for various projects and commissions

And how you can make your own hd skins from beginning to end from making the skin to putting it into mitomer to check the skin to using more player models to actually like use your skin in game so we’re going to be covering those and i’ve also provided a few assets that

I have made in the description of this video to make it a little bit easier for you and we’re going to address those in just a minute so for now we’re just going to look at the last few skins up here don’t really mind what they’re doing that’s not important and then we’re

Going to go ahead and take a look at what sort of things we need to download first so you are going to need some sort of drawing software in order to make the skin as long as the drawing software lets you change the size of the image

And save it as a transparent png file you can make minecraft skins in it for this i suggest fire alpaca it’s the one i use totally completely free good for windows or whatever version of computer you have you’re going to go to this which i will link in the description

And download fire alpaca it’ll take a little bit to get used to you i highly suggest having a drawing tablet because doing it with a mouse will be very difficult but fire alpaca is the um drawing software that i use for my skins all right so this is a 1.7.10

Skin map this is what you use versions of the game under 1.7.10 if you want to see how i make skins with this specific um template then you’re going to go to my old tutorial for hd skins but because this is a little outdated now this is what we’re going to be

Working with this is the 1.12 put well actually no it’s the 1.8 whatever above skin but i think of it as the 1.12.2 skin this is four layers um you have the head layer the hat and the top and bottom uh the body and then we have a lot of floating

Layers that we don’t have in the 1.7.10 this looks incredibly complicated the download for this will be in the description and i have separated it into four parts there are the part labels for both the full skin map and the simple skin map if you want to just use the simple

Skin map you’re going to make this invisible and this invisible and this is all that you’re left with it is basically the same thing as the 1.7.10 skin map but with like you know a separate arm and leg for the left and right side of the body on the 1.7.10 it would mirror

The left and right leg so you had the same um image on both and this version you don’t have that you have a distinct layer for the left and right leg and arm so i’m not going to show you the full skin map usage i think you can

Kind of suss it out on your own if you have any familiarity with this at all like if you’ve worked with regular minecraft skins with the pixels you’ll know that this is a layer that floats over everything like if you were doing extra detail and then

Everything else is the base of the layer so that’s what we’re just going to be working with here but ursa i hear you say what if i already have a pixel skin that i want to turn into an hd skin do i have to start over from scratch

No no you don’t all you have to do is take your pixel skin and scale it up so in whatever drawing software you’re using you’re going to go where you can change the size and scale it up to like 40 96 and there you go now it’s big enough for

You to draw on and make into an hd skin i suggest going and grabbing the skin map and just copying that pasting it underneath your pixel skin that way you can get rid of this layer and just select the face if you want to work on the face you know

That way you’re not drawing outside of the lines you can make another layer say you want to do that thing that people do where they literally just make the eyes shiny you don’t want to go for the whole hd skin you just want to make

The eyes look fancy you can do that you can just give them a little bit of a glow add some little stars in there add some little shiny bits and you know you’ve got a significantly more hd looking skin than you had before um forgive the not really dramatic hd eyes but

Like you know for a quick example so um you can do that if you wanted to just take the hair and make the air hair hd you can do that all you have to do is just go over it um i really suggest drawing the hair over

The face layer that way you know how it will lay on the eyes because if you like just kind of squiggle it it’ll just go wherever you want to kind of go up here make it really curly maybe or straight however you want your hair style to be

And you just go from there like that and then you would just click and drag it because look the way that you want your hair to be isn’t how this is so you would like do whatever you need to customize it make it whatever you want it to be and there you

Go you can scale up your pixel skin into an hd skin just be aware if you have an alex skin like i do here uh these pixels are going to be off it needs to be that needs to be part of the shirt this needs to be part of the arm

Stuff like that so just be aware of that um if you have a sieve versus an alex skin this is for the sieve and i don’t think more player models actually supports having the alex skins because you’ll just have that part be blank right here so um we’re going back to our

Skin map here and let’s go ahead and see if i have any speed paints that can be an example of our process here just so i don’t have to make a whole new speed paint for this All right so here is a example of a skin that i made for a commission a while ago this is gregory from fnaf you can see in the bottom right corner there i have my reference pulled up so i can pull colors directly off of it see how the character looks

If you’re working with an original character you obviously don’t have to do this unless you already drew a reference for yourself usually i start with the face but for this one i wanted to make sure i got the outfit correct because you can’t actually see his entire outfit

In this so i went and i started working on the shorts his shoe and i’m only working on one leg because on this character both legs are the same so i’m gonna end up just copying and pasting to flip it on over that’s the easiest way to do it

Obviously if you have a character wearing um like a pocket watch in their pocket or they have two different legs or maybe like ratty jeans or something you’re going to want to be able to mix up the textures and you know make it different on each leg

And i’ll get to that in a minute um i went ahead and moved over to the torso of the character started adding on details of the shirt stuff like that and these are all optional details depending on what character you’re drawing what you’re doing it’s going to turn out a little bit different

You can add as much or as little detail as you want this one was a relatively simple uh skin so i just went over at a detail where i know it should be right there you see how i’m still using my my own skin reference there at the bottom

To select certain areas to copy them over and paste them over to get it right um because it can be very easy to make it not in the lines and then you have floating lines places and that’s very difficult and irritating when you don’t know where they came from so try to stay

Inside the lines the fill tool on fire alpaca can be a little difficult now that we’re getting into the face details i’m going to go over a couple of things it’s important that you use the flip tool here because any asymmetry on a face is going to be very visible

Because we do have symmetry in our features and on minecraft especially being able to see that on a square character is very evident um no matter what your style is if you go in there and everything’s kind of wonky it’s not going to look finished so i suggest using the copy and paste

Tool flipping things around changing proportions and sizes uh try you can have big eyes small eyes it doesn’t matter as long as you’re making it look like it fits the model usually if you think about it on the pixel skins the eyes take up two to four blocks maybe even more

Or pixels not blocks but you know what i mean so here the proportions also have to match up um and for the hair like i was saying earlier you want to do it on a separate layer have it over the face so you see where it falls

And then you’re going to see in a minute that after i shade everything i’m going to draw guidelines for me to move it over to the floating layer of the hair and that’s going to make it a little bit easier for me this is not necessarily a drawing tutorial it’s just

Showing you my process that way you’re a little bit more familiar when you jump into it you’re out on your own um let’s see i flipped around the hair a couple of times to see if i liked the way it looked better i changed the textures and the darkness of it

There’s a lot of different tools on fire alpaca that can make this easier but if you’re not familiar with it or if you’re using a different drawing software then it really won’t affect you much uh move it around play with it you know and

One of the tips that i can give you for human characters is draw one side of the head first with the ear and then flip it again so it has that symmetry because we are not perfect but we do have symmetry we have one ear on one

Side one on the other they’re usually about the same size so we’re going in adding shadows and details i don’t go overly detailed on this guy but it really depends on you your style uh just as an example i know a lot of people like to give very realistic hair to their hd

Minecraft skins i don’t personally like that very much so i just end up adding you know the little stripes to the hair that make it look shiny once your skin is done you’re going to end up with something like this you’re going to want to make sure that you delete the skin matte

Base before you save your skin you’re going to go to file you’re going to save it as a png and you’re going to make sure you save it as transparent if you don’t save it as transparent all of the white space is going to wrap over your character

Remember that floating space that we were talking about earlier that’s going to become your enemy so make sure you save it as transparent after you have your skin saved i recommend grabbing it and putting it on your desktop because we’re going to go ahead and look at some other things

Now so for some of the downloads i you don’t have to do this personally i really really really depend on my nature for checking my skins that way i don’t have to log on to a minecraft world every single time i make an adjustment to a skin this is much faster than

Having to load up every time so that download is in the description as well again you don’t have to do this if you want to just check your skin in minecraft you can i suggest downloading my nature just because you can put hd skins on the characters

And you don’t have to use it to mine to animate if you don’t want to so when you download my nature that’s going to look like this except you won’t have any recent projects i’m going to make a new one just for the tutorial and i’m going to create we end up in

This little area here um this is just going to be literally just for me putting the skin down i’m going to click on this little bench click on the little person add a sieve and then grab my skin off of the desktop and i’m going to click create

And here he is so we can see what we’ve got to work with here everything looks good to me but say maybe you made the hair layer too small it would show up on this character and you’d be able to go back and you’d be able to fix it in your

Um your fire alpaca or whatever your drawing software is scale up the hair and boom it fits so we have our little character guy here he looks good we checked it in minimature we can go all the way around hey look at that i forgot the bottom of

The feet you know that’s probably something that i could fix but uh yeah so if i wanted to i could go back over into fire alpaca and i can do the bottom of the feet which should be that square right there that’s definitely why we had that problem

Uh so yeah checking your skins being able to do a full 360. very helpful after you check your skin you are going to want to go ahead and download our next thing here which is more player models now you need minded modded minecraft in order to do anything with minecraft hd skins

I don’t think there are mods for mobile minecraft yet guys i’m sorry if there are correct me i’ll make another tutorial later on when that’s possible but for now you can only mod um certain versions of the game any version of the game you have more

Player models for i assume that you can do it so you’re gonna go you’re gonna download more player models if you need a tutorial for how to use mods there are thousands literally thousands online so um you’re going to download more player models the version of minecraft i’m using for this is 1.12.2

Because that’s what i already have downloaded and i’m going to pop into a single player world my supe my tutorial skin check which i already have also going to make that bigger so that you guys can see it a bit easier and here’s what we’re going to do

In the game i’m going to hit f12 and if i have downloaded everything correctly it’s going to open up this little uh dialog box here or interactive box and i’m going to click edit this is our interface for the more player models mod i’m going to go to options and here’s

What i have here i have skin url but ursa where am i going to get a skin url for my skin that i just made well do i have an answer for you my friend we’re going to go over to our um uploader thingy of choice uh for me that’s imgur it’s it’s

Ingert.com you go over to emger and you click on images after you sign in you’re gonna have to log in for this but i mean if you’re making hd skins you’re going to need this anyway you’re going to add your image i’ve already done this you can see our lovely little

Gregory skin is right here i’m going to copy the direct link the direct link make sure you copy the direct link not the image link not the markdown link the direct link then i’m going to go back into minecraft control v which will paste this link into this box here make sure you

Click in the box first now do not click select press enter on your keyboard again do not click select because if you do that and press done it will crash your game i don’t know why it just does so press enter and then click this little x in the top corner

And there we go we’ve got our nice sweet boy gregory right here hanging out he’s got his band-aid on his face and yeah that’s it that’s how you do it you can use this on multiplayer servers if it’s your server a friend’s server as long as they have more player models as

The same version as you do you can see it and they can see it too if it’s like a big server like hypixel or something i probably won’t be able to see it it used to be that way i don’t know if it’s that way anymore

It depends on if they have it enabled or not but yeah thank you so much for joining me for this tutorial i hope you guys enjoyed it if you have any questions please go ahead and ask in the comment section below i will do my best to respond to every single question

And answer every question if i get one question a lot i will pin it and i’ll put it in a most frequently and ask questions section again the only thing i can think of that i didn’t cover in this tutorial is how to download mods but again there’s over thousands and

Thousands and thousands of tutorials on how to do that on on youtube to begin with this was specifically just for making skins and look at this i even made a nifty little um like outline for every part of it so i don’t know i was trying really hard to

Be uh productive with this but if you have any questions please let me know if there’s something that i haven’t covered i will do my best to address that for you oh yeah and um if you want to support the channel there’s a couple links in the description

You can buy me a coffee if you want you don’t have to i’d appreciate it i do like coffee but yeah so you guys will have a good day bye