Here you will see the technique of making an avatar from scracth. Sometimes I use a picture for reference, and sometimes I create them from images entirely in my mind's eye. An EXTREMELY good web site to get inspiration from, is Elfwood. It is a sci-fi image/fan fiction archive. If you want, you can go there before I start here, to go find a picture that you would like to base an avatar off of, if you don't have any particular image in your head that you would like to create. Just make sure its ok with the artist that makes it, is ok. I do not endorse plagarism here :P

Here is the other way I make new clothing. I take an image and play with the size of it, until it fits just right. I usually zoom in when doing this, because there is a lot of cleaning up to do when you resize an image to such small proportions. You can see the evolution from a real picture to a cartoon doll image along the way.

And please, do not use the finished product on any other cartoon doll or palace avatar or avatar collection, or use any other of the images for any other tutorials as they are my own creation and ONLY intended for the sole use of my tutorial webpage here.

You can see that I started with an image that I shrunk down in size. I also got a 'prep' doll upper body, and then I moved them into just the right positions to look proportionally appropriate. I then started to fix and shade the colors and render it in the cartoon doll style. Wow lol I sound really technical...I'll try to stop that :P

I just kept going and going with the shading, trying to imitate the shading from the original picture. Just by looking at the pictures you can see how I colored it (I hope), and I will be adding more examples to this part of my web site as well. Its sort of hard to put into words what comes pretty much naturally for me, so I hope you can see from the 'evolution' of this doll how I do it.