Techniques

Apart from facial features, hair and hats, there are some simple techniques you can use to make your skins look more effective than they would with just solid colours.


Gradients:
Gradients are an effective way of shading your skin. All you have to do is get a colour, and select the shades getting gradually lighter or darker etc. and place them next row or column, so that it looks smooth. This effect also looks good diagonally.