Thread:CrabbyMeal/@comment-32624238-20160720132533/@comment-28460949-20160720161609

Okay. So, here is how I do things:

Custom Hairstyles - I first sketch them out on my bald base, and (most of the time) use Kuu Dere's hairstyle for the hair strands. If a hairstyle includes stuff like drills (simaliar to Kokona's), ponytails and other things, I also use other portraits (for example, I use Koharu Hinata's ponytails or, as I said before, Kokona's drill hair for custom drill-like haircuts).

When the hairstyle "model" (It's not an actual model. I just can't think of a better word for that right now) is complete, I change its colour by using hue/luminisence/saturation and/or brightness/contrast/colour depend slider

Also, if someone requests a hairstyle that can only be given to Yandere-chan, I first take a screenshot of the said hairstyle, and then edit it so that it looks good on the base model.

Custom clothing - Depending on the type of clothing, I edit either the basic sailor seifuku, the basic gakuran, or the black blazer.

Custom accessories -  Once again, it depends on what accessory I need to make. If I need to make ribbons, I use the black blazer's bowtie. If I need to make a portrait with a club accessory that doesn't appear on portraits, I take a screenshot of it and slightly edit it (same goes for in-game accessories and custom accessories, by the way).

Facial expressions - It depends on the facial expression in question. For example, in order to create an evil facial expression, but with a smile, I rotate the eyebrows and flip (horizontaly) the mouth (with editing and corrections. of course). I won't be giving any more examples like this since it would take me days to write how I make different facial expressions, but I think you get the Idea.

Makeup - For makeup I use either Sakyu Basu or Inkyu Basu's portraits, but only for mascara and lipstick. For blush I use a watercolour brush that comes as one of the basic brushes for Easy Paint Tool Sai

Different skin, eye and background colours - Just like with colouring hairstyles, I simply use the hue/luminisence/saturation and brightness/contrast/colour depend sliders to get the desired colour.

So, this is basicly how I do everything. I may have left some things out, but I think that my message still does a good job at explaining my way of making portraits.