My 2ND avatar....

Ok, so because my second avatar is from the same race as my last, the process will be mostly the same, however, because they react differently with this emotion, it has some very different parts. SO here is how I did it::

My starting image was this:

THen i masked it and put it in a scary background (ohhhhhhh, SCARY!!!):

NExt step in the longggggg process was to add the water dragon/lizard feature that they adapt when they become scared or defensive. I chose a water dragon because i wanted the fin thing around the neck, and this is what it looked like on the girl:

THE next step was the eyes, which i later changed, but I what I did was get the eyes from my last avatar, and change the colour. But because they needed a pattern, i duplicated them and changed the colour, for each layer of each eye, then rubbed out parts so you could see the colour of eye underneath and it created a pattern. I used these colours because they contrast each other, and look cool. This is a picture of it:

Next step was the skin. I had to change the colour of the skin to purple, and did this using hue/saturation:

Also, i wanted to make her look more scared by giving her bigger pupils, but i didnt like it, so lef tit, but this is what it looked like:::

Next step was the lips, and I did the same process with the lips as the eyes, just a slightly different pattern. I found it hard to make the lips blend into face easily because of the colour. But this is how it turned out...

Next was the hair. It took me a long time to think of and find what I was going to use for hair. I finally found some yellow flames which were perfect, it had purple at the end, but i just got rid of it and only used the yellow. The flames also helped with portrayed her emotion, which is scared. The problem was it looked really weird with just one layer of it, so i duplicated it alot of times to give it more volume. (It has the snakeskin on it, even though i hadnt done it at this stage, because i forgot to get rid of it when saving the JPEG) This is the original image of the flame::

This is it unduplicated::

This is it duplicated:

But then i thought the hair kind of looked like a crown, and didnt fit, so instead of changing it completely, i just added a fringe. I did this by selected certain layers of hair, duplicating, flipping and resizing them then masking and erasing them so that they looked like a fringe. then to give it more volume I just duplicated it again, to look like this:

THe next step was the snakeskin, which again I probably done earlier, but anyway. I had to find a purple snakeskin, and so I chose this one::

And after I masked it and added it, it looked like this:

After this, I had finished doing all the things that i put in my personality profile, so because I wasn't entirely happy with my result, I started changing things to see what they looked like. First I tried bigger pupils to make her look more scared. I did this by making 2 black circles and just placing them on the eyes::

I didn't really like this, so I left it how it was. Next thing was the eyes, i changed the colour because I wanted the eyes to match::

Then to match the eyes I changed the lips and made them stripped by changed the mask.

Then, I wanted to change the eyes, so I tried different liquify techniques on the eyes and picked my favourite. This was the bloat on the eyes, but i didnt really like it::

This was just the normal liquify technique, and i didnt really like it either::

This is the final technique and its swirl, and this is what i chose because it looks cool::

Then I tried a yellow tongue using a mask and hue/saturation , which looked really bad::

THen to make her look even more scared again, I made a new layer of her lips and transformed them to a bigger size::

Next i tried eyelashes, using the hair and decreasing the size, but this looked really bad::

Next, I thought she looked kinda funny and plain, so i decided to get some hand to put on her face. This was difficult to find the right image, but eventually i found this::

Then I masked it to this (which I fixed later) :

Then put the hands in front of her face and made them the same colour as the face using hue/saturation, to look like this::

Then I added the snake skin, but I didn't just put back the snake skin that i just on the face, i make a whole new snakeskin layer and change the direction and size and used that::

Almost finished... Next I want to give her yellow nails, so I duplicated the hand and change the colour and rubbed out everything except the nails using a mask::

Then, I changed the colour of her top to yellow by duplicating the girl and using hue/saturation::

My final step was to change the hair colour a tad, I wanted it more yellow then orange, so I when to hue/saturation and instead of using a custom setting, I used a yellow boost twice, and the second time reduced it a little bit. This is my final product::