First and foremost, you need the right tools to make a static portrait.
You will need:
Notepad++ (or any other plain text editor that isn't trash)
paint.net (or any other graphic editing program that supports the DDS file format)
A portrait template (Dark World Fantasy includes two templates for you to use)
Step 1: Making the graphical portrait
For making the actual portrait using paint.net, I have already written a step-by-step tutorial on this.