How to make your own avatar?

Open a good photo with good resolution so that you can play with it…. then select a hard brush and set opacity to 50% and mode to color…now paint all over the skin with various blue shades and achieve the avatar’s tone.. leave eyes,eye brows and lips… then just cut the ears from any avatar picture and place it in in your picture in perfect position and with help of blur tool make the outlines of ears to merge with your face…then also make color changes to suit face tone..then using lasorcut tool cut the eyes and copy it to a layer and resize it enough to make it wide enough to look like avatar..then erase unwanted extras from the copied eye layer…now let us change the nose..using liquefier tool make the nose wider as for avatar..

Everything were good except the stripes…to make it just use burn tool or brush with opacity 10% but this time with a round one… and also with a sort of pink color shade over the lips to make it look like real use dodge tool to look as like same…now make the eye balls larger enough using trick we used for eyes.. then using dodge and burn tool make some lighting effects for eyes… now we got a avatar of our own…