Well, this is my first ever fully hand painted skin texture, let me know what you all think. Yea, it is WIP 
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EDIT: Here's an update, also applied on model. Ugly stretching on neck
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looks pretty good but can you post the original-size flat instead of the zoomed in screencap from PS?
the stubble is just too blurry, it needs to be smaller, darker dots
also, don't outline the lips like that, the lines make it look bad, just go from the skin color to the lip color, and put some sharing around it.
maybe my friend can help you here
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or steve:
looks good to me, just a little blurry and what bic said 
you should add those cool spots morgan has too
You want to emphasize a *protrusion* of the lower lip. Now in the screencap it looks like it's receding which is totally wrong. You need a thin shadow underneath the lip and a light highlight at its lower edge.
If that is exactly what the HL2 model skin looks like, I guess it's possible that they modified the color map to account for some weirdness that the smoothing or normal map was creating or something but that seems unlikely. If you're going to do something as wrong as that it needs to be very deliberate and intentional. If you're just mimicking something else you need to understand why they did it that way.
Just try it the other way and see how it looks.
i don't think the problem is the highlight, the problem is that darker line above it.
yeah ok the problem is that the lip color and the lip geometry are not exactly coincidental. and you do definitely need to lose the dark line.
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