Minecraft skin editor
Make a character from parts or paint on a 3D figure, then share it or wear it in Minecraft Bedrock. Free, with no sign-up, and what you draw stays on your device until you share it.
Pinch to zoom. Tap the small figure for 3D.Scroll to zoom; Space-drag to move.
Make a character in a minute
Make a character puts a whole skin together from parts: eyes, a mouth, hair, a hat, a top and legs, each in the colours you pick, already shaded. Start from a ready-made character, or press Roll for a surprise and Keep the parts you like while you roll the rest. Then paint your own details on top.
Use your skin in Minecraft Bedrock
- Press Save to Photos, or Download skin and find it in the Files app’s Downloads.
- In Minecraft, open the Dressing Room from the main menu, then choose Classic Skins from its menu.
- Under Owned Skins, select the empty grey skin, then press Choose New Skin.
- Pick the picture from your photos or Downloads, then choose the arms it was drawn with: classic arms are four pixels wide, slim arms three.
- Press Save to Photos, then Save Image, so the skin is in your photos.
- In Minecraft, open the Dressing Room from the main menu, then choose Classic Skins from its menu.
- Under Owned Skins, select the empty grey skin, then press Choose New Skin.
- Pick the picture from your photos, then choose the arms it was drawn with: classic arms are four pixels wide, slim arms three.
- Press Download skin. The PNG goes to your Downloads folder.
- In Minecraft, open the Dressing Room from the main menu, then choose Classic Skins from its menu.
- Under Owned Skins, select the empty grey skin, then press Choose New Skin.
- Pick the PNG from Downloads, then choose the arms it was drawn with: classic arms are four pixels wide, slim arms three.
Consoles can’t import a skin file, so a skin you make here can be worn in Minecraft on a phone, a tablet or a Windows PC. Made it on a computer? Share it, then open the link on a phone.
Friends can’t see your skin? They probably have Only Allow Trusted Skins switched on in Minecraft’s settings, which hides skins imported from a file. For skin packs, texture packs and mods, see how to install them.
Share it with friends
Share makes a short link to your skin’s own page, where a friend can turn it around in 3D, download it for Minecraft or change it into their own, and a QR code that opens it on a phone. It also makes a picture of the skin from the front and behind, a turning GIF, a replay of how you drew it and, in most browsers, a short video for your phone. The link keeps the skin, never its name, and the picture carries the skin itself: dropping it into the editor opens the skin again.
The two layers
A skin has a body layer and an outer layer that sits just above it, for hats, hair, hoods, jackets and sleeves. The body layer should cover every pixel; the outer layer can leave pixels empty, and anything empty shows the body underneath. Choose which one you’re painting with Body and Outer at the top of the editor, and hide the outer layer with the eye to see what’s beneath it. On the flat skin, the layer you aren’t painting is dimmed.
Tools for every skin
Pencil, Fill, Eraser and Pick are always at hand. More tools adds Lighten and Darken for shading, Noise for a worn, textured look, and Recolour, which turns every pixel like the one you tap into your colour and keeps its shading, so a pink hoodie becomes a blue one in one tap. Mirror paints both sides of the figure at once, Checker paints every other pixel, and brushes come in three sizes. Magic shades the whole skin, copies one side onto the other or empties the outer layer, each in one tap that Undo takes back. On a touch screen, tap with two fingers to undo and hold still on a pixel to pick its colour. Every tool has a keyboard shortcut; press ? in the editor for the list.
Reach every face
Hide a body part to paint what it covers, like the inside of an arm, or pose the figure with its arms out. Turn the figure by dragging beside it, flip it round with one tap, or switch on Turn so every drag turns it. The flat skin zooms up to four times with a pinch or the mouse wheel and names the part and face under your pointer.
Your skins are kept as you go
The editor saves while you paint, and My skins keeps the last 60 you worked on, in this browser only. There is no account to make.
Start from a finished skin
Every free skin on ModChest has an Edit this skin button that opens it here. Change its colours, add your own details and download it as yours. Or open, drop or paste any 64 by 64 skin file you already have; older 64 by 32 skins are widened to the modern layout. Browse free skins.