In terms of actually making portraits on your own, there are a bountiful number of tutorials which have been posted here and on other sites to walk you through the process of learning how to create them on your own.
Hi everyone! I’m Ganzap! If you don’t know who I am, I am a novice ROM hacker who has joined the community about a year ago, though I have been lurking FEU without an account for awhile now. During my time at FEU I have noticed the lack of GBAFE Mug tutorials/guide here on the forums. There are some out there on many different sites (some are very good like toa’s) but not a popular one here on the forums. I do not consider myself a godly spriter or anything but I do believe that a tutorial here …
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Welcome! This is a list of tutorials and general advice I’ve created to help newcomers step into the world of custom portraiting, as well as hopefully provide some new insight to other spriters!
Below are the completed categories, though there are more to come!
[colors]
Colors and Paletting
[starting]
Starting Your Portrait and Shapes
[shading]
Shading and Lighting
[image]
Anti-Aliasing
Below are some notes and resources that don’t belong to a category (yet) but still are …
https://forums.serenesforest.net/topic/25963-spriters-resource/
(first post here)
https://forums.serenesforest.net/topic/25963-spriters-resource/#comment-1555400
AK’s Speaking Frames tutorial: https://i.imgur.com/EOHgVW6.png