Baking a stylized skin texture?

Support Materials and Textures
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Hello my fellow Blender users
It crossed my mind today that maybe Blender could help generate stylized skin textures for characters and I am a bit stumped. I am looking to generate something similar to this style:

http://i.imgur.com/7JBPnBf.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/yoHxPfU.jpg

Now I know that these textures weren’t automatically generated, but I am looking to do something similar in cycles that I can then bake to a diffuse map. I’ll admit, when it comes to Blender materials is the thing I am most weak at so please bear with me if this is a silly question. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!

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Do you really need baking? In this kind of textures, simply painting them is normally enough.

Baking is bit more for:
-Convert complex nodes setups into textures
-Capture details (textures, normals, displacements, etc) from high resolution objects to low resolution
-Store light information in the textures (direct, indirect, ambient occlusion)
-Store object information in textures (coordinates, curvatures, etc)