How to make a better player skin?

It is easy, just you need to follow my steps.
To make a better skin, you need to be good in shading. (Im not good in shading, but good in player, I think )

1. First open your cs2d folder/ gfx/ player, and select a player image like ct4.bmp. Im just show you one of the ct4 holding a melee image. And you use white color to color all the image except outline and magenta.

And this is the result:


2. Second, try to shade like this, don't use my color, this is just a style for shading.





3. Use this image as a guide and shading till you get a better result like this.

This is the result:


I hope you will like it.

Guild? isn't it Guide? nice tutorial

half guide and half tutorial.

correction is guide

nice tuts though

I know it's fancy to call everything "HD" but there is really NOTHING "HD" about a 32x32 pixel image...

Actually its a straight conture skin not a hd skin. Hd stands for high definition and its a given 16:9 resolution of pixels .

What did you mean by calling it "Guild for making HD skins"? Quality or size?

If it HQ pixels skins then it must be look like this:

People that use HD for pixel art are Highly Disturbing.

Sorry, bad title. Changed.
@ Pagyra: The texture and shading.

hey RisingXD, what application you use for make skin?

MS Paint.