Tomodachi Mii face paint guide (????)
For those who were having a hard time with the face paint stuff like I did, I figured out a way to help by creating your own reference so it would be wayyy easier to format your oc onto the mii face grid (this guide is probably for hardcore Tomodachi life players but if you’re insane like me it might help you out). You’ll need a drawing software of some kind for this, doesn’t matter which one.
Put your Mii’s facial features together that don’t require the face paint feature. Once you’ve moved to that part, take a picture of the face with your grid type of choice.
(This is the part I’m talking about! ⬇️)
2. Take the photo you have (doesn’t need to be perfect and you don’t need a capture card, a photo from a phone works too) and input into your drawing software of choice. If you can, trace the grid on a new layer with a different color so you can overlay the grid with your new reference. Make sure there’s some amount of space because you’re gonna want to place your oc’s face somewhere.
3. Find a front facing image of your oc and trace it so you can play with the lineart and color layer separately, or make a new front facing image (like I did). Copy the layer of the lineart and use that copied layer to format your oc’s face over the mii face. Let it be known that you will have to likely edit the lineart to have it fit well on the mii face.
4. When things look good, you can then create a color layer and experiment with what colors you want to use and what kinds of light and shadow you think will look best. I created an entirely new reference next to my lineart reference so I could see them both at the same time.
(One thing I would like to note is that the image you use on face paint DOES distort a bit as it kinda wraps around the face! Make sure to check the mii’s face and edit anything to fix any kind of distortion!)
5. Use your new reference to put together your oc in Tomodachi life! Let it be known that it won’t be perfect, but it might be an upgrade to your previous attempts like me. When I did this I saw a massive change in quality so maybe some people will find this helpful.
This also helps for planning out more complicated designs or designs that might be hard to fit on the face grid. Note that this does take a lot of time, so if you’re willing to pour hours into this stuff this guide might work.