Leather Skinning Tutorial

Tutorial for Battle for Middle-earth BFME, Battle for Middle-earth II BFME 2, Battle for Middle-earth II: Rise of the Witch-king ROTWK

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Category:	Graphics
Level:	Intermediate
Created:	Monday June 11, 2007 - 0:13
Updated:	Monday June 11, 2007 - 0:24
Views:	7338
Summary:	Tutorial on drawing leather

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Straps

Create a new layer, name it "strap". Draw a small box using a size 2 painbrush where you wish one of the straps to be.

Use a tiny dodge brush to highlight the edges of this piece of leather. That's pretty much it for this bit. Create another layer, labeled "strap metal". Take a very low saturation light brown and draw half a tiny, simple buckle where the strap ends. We draw half since it on this skin it will be mirrored, so we only need half at this point. If the skin configuration was different, the whole buckle might need to be drawn. You'll also want to put a tiny stud to anchor the strap to the chestplate. Apply a few highlights with a strong dodge brush.

You'll next need to shade the "strap" layer. Using a size 2 Burn brush on Highlights, exposure 30%, darken the area around the stud and the buckle so that the illusion of depth is given. Then, select the "shirt" layer and, using the same burn brush shade around the strap.

You might want to edit the strap a bit. Do so now, then copy it three times as shown. You can now merge all the strap metal and strap layers together, and use a large burn brush on highlights to shade them in a way that matches the rest of the armour.

The straps are now complete. There is only one more bit of leatherwork that will be especially useful, and that is the belt. We will now be constructing an ornamental belt for this warrior.

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