How to make SKIN TEXTURES in Substance Painter

[@mohammadrazakhan3852]

Finally someone came up with the real skin texturing process.. That really awesome. I wish there will be another part too for the whole body. Like how the skin texture will go for the rest of the body below neck with the same face color

[@Substance3D]

Awesome work, J!

[@artofjhill]

Thank you!

[@GhostRider77726h]

@@artofjhill Hey ive got a question can i also do that with substance painter from steam, with in built texture and materials?? Or do i have to get external textures/ materials?

[@jeanclaudethedarklord6205]

​​​@@GhostRider77726h there's no difference, those are very simple in built textures that you can find on a lot of websites.

[@tytotech9498]

Another good reference for skin is subdermal color zones. I found adding those colors really brings so much more life to the peace.

[@chasingdaydreams2788]

What is subdermal color zones?

[@tytotech9498]

@@chasingdaydreams2788 Basically, your skin has subtle color differences. Like purple under the eyelids, reds of the cheeks, blues or yellows around the mouth, etc. I recommend looking up references

[@chasingdaydreams2788]

@@tytotech9498 so would this be done on a diffuse map or sss/translucency map?

[@tytotech9498]

@@chasingdaydreams2788 diffuse. just subtly painting on the colors. Like he does the purple under the eyes in here.

[@CONTORART]

Thanks

[@artofjhill]

Cheers!

[@unrealhabitat]

I really appreciate the breakdown step by step, you give lots of pieces other tutorials don't, amazing work!

[@artofjhill]

Glad you liked it! Cheers

[@TheAngelArrow]

so glad i'm looking at videos on people's methods for this, i would've never gone about making skin this way, i'd have done some stupid stacking of shit and struggled then failed thanks for this

[@artofjhill]

You got it

[@CONTORART]

This has really broken the ice for me getting into texturing properly, as I had dabbled and had some quick and dirty workarounds, but I love this manual approach. And best thing is it feels like the layering process I would use in photoshop. And can confirm this process still works with my old substance painter 2017 version. Thanks a ton!

[@artofjhill]

Glad to hear it

[@Lannisterification]

Man this is truly one of the best tutorials I've ever followed, thanks to you I kinda feel like I have textured faces my whole life !

[@artofjhill]

[@dark-flame-master]

¡Gracias!

[@artofjhill]

de nada

[@dark-flame-master]

@@artofjhill Sorry, that was the default comment. I love your videos for the quality and effort you put into them. I needed specifically what you show, and I couldn't find a way to approach it correctly, so your video has helped me tremendously. Thanks again, this time in English. Keep up the good work JH.

[@clumsypig8488]

This is the greatest skin tutorial I've ever watched! Thank you for your breakdown!

[@artofjhill]

Appreciate that

[@workflowinmind]

It's because of videos like this one that people can say that nowadays you learn more on KZbin than at school! Impressive one J, full of useful knowledge.

[@artofjhill]

appreciate that. Glad you found it useful

[@bakani2218]

Finally, someone who opens the curtain to skin texturing!! Thank you J!!!

[@vannibrighella8949]

you are awesome! I still remember when you commented on my old project on Artstation. I felt so honored :) thank you for sharing your technique

[@artofjhill]

Thank you. I’m sure your work was cool 😎

[@XAKHAN_ArtB.Y.R.O.N.I.C.]

You are one hell of an inspiration for me. I'm going from Digital painting/drawing, and expanding my skills to 3D, and you are an awesome teacher! Subscribed, Sir!

[@artofjhill]

Thank you man, I appreciate that. Have fun

[@BrianLife]

So Good!!! Thank you so much JH!

[@artofjhill]

glad you liked it!

[@samcraftYT]

Yah zBrush is a OpenGL software, like Maya. But Substance Painter is DirectX by default so people want to use external maps like from zBrush, best they start OpenGL. Substance do export in both format (OpenGL or DirectX). Like J said: it's only the Green channel that is flip. By the way, Unreal is DirectX too. So you need to choose ahead in each software you want to

[@aliqaheri2459]

J, you're the kind of artist to look up to. Thank you for these amazing tutorials you put out.

[@artofjhill]

[@vappex]

Thank you so much for this tutorial man, you make such a complicated topic looks incredible easy, that's a trait of someone who really knows what is doing. Thank you for being this amazing artist and inspiring thousands of people just like me!!

[@artofjhill]

Thank you for the comment and I hope it helps

[@supasuoasuoasupa1939]

tHANK YOU sir this is like the definitive guide to 3d character texturing. Just a minor request, as some has requested to, maybe a full body texture, tutorial or full body brush you can have for sale at artstation? that would be my dream!

[@leollohra8914]

Very helpful tutorial,No one does like you did an narration video over an hour.You are superb.being awesome like this.It will boost in my work

[@turningcog]

thank you for telling people to save as soon as they start a project. so many of my art buddies fight me on saving right away

[@artofjhill]

can never save too soon or too much

[@OzzO_Official]

This is a very insightful video on texturing. Honestly the best out there. Keep up the great work J!

[@rcarter1690]

It’s criminal how few subs you’ve got. Your art/tuts are amazing!

[@artofjhill]

Appreciate that

[@danvincentbarotilla5550]

been watching Skin texturing tutorials i think this is one of the best, learned a lot thanks man

[@artofjhill]

Thank you, happy to hear that

[@bleibtneugierig2928]

This How To really increased my texturing skills. Thanks for sharing.

[@ilmarihakkola]

Just found your channel, this is amazing! Great mix of context, art history, hands on techniques and pro tips and your presence and presentation is phenomenal! Thank you!

[@artofjhill]

thank you so much for the comment. glad you're liking the videos

[@jaimeebanks6698]

You make the best character tutorials, J. Seriously. They're really helping me get over the roadblocks I've hit trying to transition to character art (from motion graphics) so thank you. I'd love to see another video like this that covers dark skin tones. Any chance you'll walk through / talk through that in the future?

[@artofjhill]

Thank you! That’s a good idea and I’ll write it down and hope to make something like that in the future. Cheers

[@jaimeebanks6698]

@@artofjhill You da man. Thanks, J.

[@DeliriousBlake]

thanks for this very cool tutorial. Now I see all my mistakes in texturing realistic skin and I need to learn work in zbrush. Cause I know how modeling character but I can't sculpting the all this details in skin. Great work

[@artofjhill]

Have fun!

[@nikoraisikovoy7572]

I have so much respect for you, simply because you dont use xyz textures, but reference them and paint all the layers by hand. Brings a piece to a whole new level of quality

[@artofjhill]

Appreciate that. Glad you like it

[@Dragon_Yax]

The best lecture, you are the god of Substance painter. I love you

[@artofjhill]

Love you back

[@fortitudecreative7436]

I'm just getting into the Zbrush + Substance workfrlow. Thanks for the very in depth tutorial, definitely dropping a follow. The one thing I would have done for this girl model you shown is add lighter skin tones around the hair line as everything under her hair would recieve less sun and tend to be lighter than the rest of her face. Her part seemed pretty tan as well as around her harline around her face. But great work either way.

[@will2power23803]

There's a lot of good information here, thanks!. Would you consider doing another one of these for darker skin tones? I have been searching for a tutorial for ages and haven't found a good skin painting tutorial for like African Skin, Hispanic, or Indian skin for some time.

[@artofjhill]

Glad you liked it. I may do that for an upcoming character project. For now though, the techniques are the same just the colors would be different

[@KRGraphicsCG]

This is an amazing tutorial and refresher for me. I might takes this a step further and paint a hypodermis map to really sell things like veins under skin and tattoos. I built a custom shader in Unity to use this and tint the base layer to an Orange colour. Again, awesome tutorial.

[@artofjhill]

Sounds dope, glad you liked the video

[@KRGraphicsCG]

@@artofjhill I'm headed home now to try out this technique, which should be quicker than the method used by Madeline Spencer, which involved creating a base layer, spraying everywhere, and then spraying a base again. So much work

[@MrSheduur]

When the video started in specular with grey surface, I already though "it does not even matter what type of albedo he paints, the specular looks so nice already" ;)

[@niklasss]

yeah, not really a useful tutorial unless you already have a 3D model with pores already...

[@joshuajones6113]

I totally apologize, but I am going to hijack your comment section to make the part about painting the interior of the lips easier to find. You whole video is excellent, but this part in particular has been plaguing me for awhile in my own work. Thank you!! Painting the interior of the lips in UV mode: 43:19

[@ghostwarrior-ni1xb]

wow really appreciate this video's step by step process workflow once you understand it we can easily replicate in any software 😁

[@t_claassen]

Golden tute for me. Period. As a SP beginner these are most valuable!

[@artofjhill]

Happy to hear that. Have fun

[@AlexisRivera3D]

This is insane! thank you for sharing

[@Maria67922]

I'm amazed how I just found this right at the same time I gotta start texturing a character

[@artofjhill]

awesome, I hope it helps out

[@Noob12341-i]

He made it for you 😎

[@pichu115]

finally someone created full video about skin in SP, thanks mate!

[@artofjhill]

cheers, I hope it helps

[@mariamaria9860]

I LOVE U FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL HIGH QUALITY CONTENT!!!!!

[@artofjhill]

🙏

[@alexchaliienko7030]

Omg Jay! You are the best human being!!!! Thank you so so so so so so much for sharing that! Number 1, no jokes!

[@artofjhill]

haha thank you man, glad you like it. I hope it helps

[@jasurxakimov6928]

it’s great, I really needed this information, thanks for the video, and good luck with the new projects

[@artofjhill]

Thank you. Glad you liked it

[@pascalperigaud439]

Thanks for sharing for a newbie like me. You have a lot of talents, I will be one of your students... thank you very much Jhill

[@artofjhill]

Happy you liked it

[@anastasiaradeva9019]

Hey this is a great tutorial and cool result considering quite simple steps. I'm a bit confused, you've exproted the high poly and worked with it, then rendered also this, but if I want to work with low poly like game ready character I should bake all those textures form high and then work like that, or for example I can do the same thing with high poly loke in tutorial but on final render apply those exported textures on low poly?

[@laurelionothaliondor7308]

Look a video like this for AGES, thank you so much. My work definitely improve after your lessons

[@tamaraal-saadi3419]

I can´t even tell you how thankful I am. Seriously. I would love to see how you bring it into Maya and render it

[@artofjhill]

Glad you liked it. Will do

[@nfarquhar]

Some fantastic workflows in here, very nice.

[@renamecard4490]

wow i really want to try this now. Thanks again for putting these vids together it helps a ton

[@artofjhill]

glad to hear it helps. Make something cool!

[@vindatum9218]

I improved alot from watching this Thanks alot

[@artofjhill]

Awesome. Love to hear that. Make some cool stuff

[@TheSatzy6699]

Oh super one 👏 pls bring us some latest tuts like u did during mold3d times, that was amazing too.

[@leandrosn962]

Thank you for putting so much effort and sharing so much!!!

[@artofjhill]

You’re welcome! I hope it helps

[@yobased2872]

This is sick J, thank you! Did you use mostly this same technique for your orc's skin? (obviously different colors, but just generally). I've always struggled painting non-human skin colors. Like, what kinds of colors would go into the Hulk's skin besides just green? etc etc.

[@artofjhill]

yea for sure I did. And with that kind of stuff Basically it's the "skin Color" layer that changes. still use redness, blues and purples of hair follicles etc. The mixing of the colors is what helps look organic

[@MrGenia1991]

thanks bro🙃🙃🙃. very hard work

[@jovanmaric8932]

Excellent as always. Quick question: in professional life, are you an concept level artist or do you also prepare models for production? And if the latter, I'd really love a toplogy/mouthbag making/rig prep tutorial from you, that's the part that I'm struggling most, no good courses for that around for some reason.

[@artofjhill]

I make production models. I don't understand what you're struggling with exactly

[@chrisSandersASX]

Thanks for this. Hopefully it helps me texture my characters skin.

[@artofjhill]

Me too. Gl

[@alienfriend170]

i need some more character's for my games too!thanks for the lessons baby! :)

[@bitterswot7584]

Thanks J! This video is teaching me a LOT!!

[@artofjhill]

Glad to hear it!

[@max-uc5do]

This tutorial is a life saver 🙏

[@artofjhill]

Glad you found it helpful

[@aston81]

I just got to say thank you - I am having so much fun trying your process.

[@artofjhill]

great, love to hear that. Enjoy

[@paolaanimator]

Loved this video! I added this video into my helpful 3D modeling tips playlist :D

[@artofjhill]

I appreciate it! 🙏

[@yucelyilmaz]

Amazing tutorial. I have just learned Substance Painter :) ;) Thanks

[@nia995]

really stoked for this i was waiting for that kind of tutorial!

[@artofjhill]

tight, hope you like it then

[@nia995]

@@artofjhill i love it! so much to learn from this

[@3DGhost]

Thank u very much, as a beginner I learned A LOT!!

[@artofjhill]

Glad to hear it

[@goheenbiswas1901]

You're the perfect teacher... Thanks a lot... If it weren't for you, we'd still be stuck somewhere in the caves..

[@artofjhill]

I don’t know about all that but thank you

[@roagroach5199]

Thank you, it was very educational and helpful!

[@rahulpaul.3d]

I fkin love you for this

[@bryanorozco1593]

Wow. All of your videos are amazing! I'm watching all of your videos first, then my professor's. Lol

[@san-wr2fd]

helps me a lot,thanks!

[@nareshkumar3526]

Best youtube channel for learning 3d

[@artofjhill]

🙏

[@ezbaisalgado4169]

Thank you for your tutorial, I have a question Do you have any tutorials on how to make a sss map?

[@minervaart6627]

high quality stuff man!

[@grayfox8904]

This is so great man! Keep em coming!

[@artofjhill]

Thank you, will do.

[@dirty_flowers]

insane! thanks for upgrading my skillz

[@crecrescio]

My Man! Another amazing tutorial! You saved me again :D

[@artofjhill]

I got you

[@prathavjuloori7876]

So I'm kind of new to texturing in general. I understand there are two techniques of baking details, one is by baking high res details onto lowpoly and the other one is by importing normal maps instead of the high poly. Is there an advantage to using either of these techniques?

[@metasculptor3358]

Man I love this

[@OksanaNovikova-p3d]

You are awesome! It is sooo in time! Your explanations are the best :)

[@artofjhill]

🙏

[@FancyFun3433]

49:52 Painting roughness in certain areas for realism

[@toofatforart4743]

this was so helpful thank you! I love your videos

[@artofjhill]

🙏

[@nobodyhere2156]

where can i get that face model fbx with normal map

[@demiladesalawu-eu5dq]

Please, can i transfer the skin textures to apply on blender character skin texture I need answer Great job by the way.😍😍

[@artofjhill]

Sure these textures can be exported from painter and used for anything. Thanks 🙏

[@etta777]

What if I use Blender and I can't make such a detailed relief on the skin? Is it possible to use some different method?

[@artofjhill]

Yea, use ZBrush :p

[@etta777]

@@artofjhill Lol, no, I mean.. for example, why not to use just normal map stamps (brushes) of this skin pores.. maybe it could be generated in substance designer.. I just learning all this stuiff, so maybe it is not a reasonable solution, idk

[@dimitry9817]

Thank you J it was really helpful!

[@artofjhill]

Glad to hear it!

[@RandomNoise]

amazing tutorial. worth watching several times :-)

[@sultanefe6057]

Very good work J. Rather informative workflow. Thanks

[@artofjhill]

Glad you liked it

[@HomAxz]

Awesome tutorial man ty. Also, you have very nice eyes!

[@artofjhill]

Thank you 👀

[@neko829]

Great tutorial! Thanks.

[@PowerfullUs]

thanks J, great tutorial!! thanks for your time

[@artofjhill]

Glad you liked it, I hope it helps

[@elmanu38]

hello!! amazing work!! one question... do you use multi map exporter for the normal maps or you bake the map on the "native" normal map Zbrush and export it?

[@artofjhill]

Thanks. Multi map exporter all the way

[@fredmarquis1105]

nice as always man pretty cool vid

[@3DartPotapov]

Awesome tutorial! Really useful tips

[@artofjhill]

Glad you got something from it

[@Azzazel_]

This is GOLD, thanks a lot

[@artofjhill]

Glad to hear it

[@fcschiavon]

Amazing tutorial! Thank you J

[@artofjhill]

Glad you liked it

[@DigitalArtcast]

KILLING IT J! You NEED to come back on the podcast and catch up with us :)

[@artofjhill]

I'm down :)

[@handlewithart]

This is amazing J!

[@artofjhill]

Glad you like it. I hope it helps

[@Thedeathofpeaceofmind]

Just what I needed thank you so muchhhh

[@artofjhill]

You got it

[@Azira1301]

I'm so happy I found your video, can not express with words how grateful I fell rn, but I will definitely need a break from your voice hahaha (im jk sorry thanks)

[@mustafasabah8129]

I'm really exciting keep going i will wait you

[@pnac3d]

Insane work man. Really beautiful. Can you make an afrodescendant woman with very dark skin and share other tips? If you already have just ignore it. I'm searching this kind of stuff right now.

[@artofjhill]

I haven't made a video on a character like that yet but it's on the to-do!