too make good skins is best to know how u want the skin to look b4 u mak it
one technique to make cool and original skins is to paint over pictures of the characters with the colors n such u want in paint before u work o nthe texture
heres is an example of a preskin-design, its jsut a picture of a mongol with color painted over it in paint but it gives me an idea of how i want the skin to look
here is the final version of the textures on the skin 100% done
doing this allows u to getu r ideas out n see how u want the ski nto look in whole befor u start working with textures