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.