I have looking online for some kind of guide to help me pick out my own custom skin for skinner but i can't seem to find out how, if anyone can tell me how to implement my own custom texture i would really appreciate it, thanks.
Take a loot at the parts of Skinner that do the work, and reverse engineer it. AFAIK, nobody's ever written a guide on modifying Skinner, and nobody's ever actually done anything to modify the default Skinner skin, except for FogBG.