The background is entitled “The Beginning.” It’s a background that we offer for free on our KillerTweets website. It’s been downloaded over 5000 times as of writing this tutorial. Feel free to visit the site and download it for yourself.

There are many ways to work within the layers (i.e. blending modes, layer properties, etc.) to create your desired effects and including them all in one tutorial would make for a really long one. So, I tried to be as concise as possible with my explanations.

Why not put a new dimension to your Twitter avatar by making your own hand drawn image of yourself, your character. There are many ways to create an avatar. So many sites now that you can visit to create an avatar to use on your profile. But I think the best way to do it is draw it yourself.

Before making any avatar, consider 5 things about your personality or interest or just a character you might want to portray. For this tutorial the subject asked me to do an anime type. She says she wanted to be a sword wielding ninja. Popular in Japanese anime.

I will use my most recent St. Patrick’s Day theme as the example. Whether you use Photoshop, Gimp, or any other graphic program to create your designs the concept is pretty much the same. Each new process is a new transparent layer.