Question for anyone who has made a base skin

[Core]

When creating a base skin, did you work with the flesh tones first or did you just use various shades of grey and then apply a color overlay later on?

I was just wondering if one was easier/harder or if working with flesh tones made the final product better.

[UnfluffyBunny]

oddly, I worked in greyscale for my bases, but did my faces in colour....
i'll dig out a timelapse for a face:
http://pro52.msshost.com/~unfluffy/images/ravenous.gif
I find seeing others work flow helps :)

[Core]

wow! that helps a lot. i had been using the wiremap as a guide up til now, but i like the idea of sketching out some lines much better.

thanks a bunch for the timelapse. now i just need to figure out how to slow it down

[Courtnall6]

All of my bases (minus the costume one) were done in flesh tones.

[Qwazy]

made my first one in flesh tones... blergh

made the second in greyscale , MUCH better
easier for colouring different skin tones and nicer to work with :)

[Xenolith]

I was thinking of making a "Curt Swan" base.  My plan was to take a wire fram for male basic, place it on a light box, place another piece of paper over the wire fram page, and then draw on Curt Swan-esque faces, muscles, etc.  Once that was done, i could scan in the new drawing.  It would probably take some time to get it perfect, but I think it would look neat.  I wasn't sure how to add the tones, either.  I maybe just leave it black and white. 

[Tomato]

My bases are done in greyscale, very simple and undefined. I'll make it just a bit darker then I intend the final product to be, recolor it, and add definition with the highlights.

I don't add faces though. I try to redo the faces with each skin to make them each unique.

[Figure Fan]

I created my base(s?) in flesh tones, actually.