One-Offs
Here are a few technical solutions that I thought were clever for specific designs but maybe not broadly applicable.
The bird mask can be a dragon's tongue.
The big gloves can be vambraces and hands, if the hands have a non-human texture.
Use the sphere (bare patches around eyes) and heart (lower beak) to transform the hawkhead into a macaw. Works with green-wing (shown), blue-and-gold, and military; rainbow pattern kinda works for wings of a scarlet and also a plausible catalina. Basic pattern 1 makes the bottom of the beak black.
Continuing the avian theme, facepaint 42 is feathery but you have to make the color dark enough to notice, and the stylized bird, on the back, at max size and elevation, lines up nicely on the cheeks. Also notice I managed something close to an eye of Horus with two copies of the stylized eye, the 7, and an invisible spot.
The Oriental stylized ocean waves pattern can make the sphere object look like a globe.
One of the helmet plumes (from Ancient Armor 2) can be a horse's tail (and cones the hooves).
Sometimes the skeleton's skull pokes through a helmet, but you can cover that with the sphere.
The eye can be a maw, the beetle horns tentacles.
A white circle on the nose (and triangles on the ears) make a wolf head foxy; note on garment the side effect is a white bite out of the moon and two-tone cufflinks.
The earrings can be eyes, for a skeleton.
Stolen from Vilarcane's c-ape-tain, the heart in conjunction with the dragon mask makes a monkey face.
The scaly pattern almost completely obscures the relief on the scorpion greaves, if bugs don't fit your theme. This pic also proves you can use apples to make skulls for pupils without any other skulls showing.
Likewise, the rattlesnake pattern changes the valkyrie greaves from swan-themed to medusa.
On some items, when you place a sticker, you get two copies, mirrored left and right. If the sticker is the eye, you can position it so that the pupil narrows, like that of a cat or lizard, perhaps a dragon, and in this image, I tried to angle the pattern to create a brow ridge.
Don't know if anyone else mentioned this, but you can turn a pirate's flesh into a treasure map with the patch, pen-and-ink drawing, and a Chinese character. EDIT: I think I like it better on the armband, over a pattern that looks like water.
Speaking of pirates, a skull with fewest stickers is a spot, the skull sticker itself, filling the spot except on either side of the jaw, and a Chinese character (I use #6 here) to cover those exceptions. Leaves 5 slots for conventional stickers.
A multi-colored striped pattern turns the laurel crown into flower petals.
When you equip the cropped jacket with a long-sleeved shirt, it makes the sleeves narrow. Then, the cuffs from the maids' pack actually do look like cuffs.
Not sure these rate individually, but maybe in combination: For a sleeker version of bladed armlets, use the mohawk with bandages. For boots in the style typical of a comic book super, use socks and pockets. To make the top of a unitard look different from the legs, I used the zipper. For a statue-of-liberty crown, the cogwheel - the teeth are way too short but still suggestive.
Another one that my not rate as much of a revalation, but I only just realized what I can do with stickers on sunglasses, and what the heck, this is an omnibus post.
Scars can be pockets; apologies if it's been mentioned before. FYI, the devil's diamond-stud earring is the tree sticker, which only works with darker skin tones or a matte (see the girl with the lace bra in previous post), and the gold buttons are a trick learned from Vilarcane: Place part of a sticker over one button, and they all change color.
If you make a kite shield from the wings, attach it to the shoulder instead of the arm.
If you want your pirate to take a page from Ed Teach (Blackbeard), with match fuses woven into his beard, use the helmet ornament.
Tigerlily underwear comes with a BOGO special on ass tats.
Here are a few technical solutions that I thought were clever for specific designs but maybe not broadly applicable.
The bird mask can be a dragon's tongue.
The big gloves can be vambraces and hands, if the hands have a non-human texture.
Use the sphere (bare patches around eyes) and heart (lower beak) to transform the hawkhead into a macaw. Works with green-wing (shown), blue-and-gold, and military; rainbow pattern kinda works for wings of a scarlet and also a plausible catalina. Basic pattern 1 makes the bottom of the beak black.
Continuing the avian theme, facepaint 42 is feathery but you have to make the color dark enough to notice, and the stylized bird, on the back, at max size and elevation, lines up nicely on the cheeks. Also notice I managed something close to an eye of Horus with two copies of the stylized eye, the 7, and an invisible spot.
The Oriental stylized ocean waves pattern can make the sphere object look like a globe.
One of the helmet plumes (from Ancient Armor 2) can be a horse's tail (and cones the hooves).
Sometimes the skeleton's skull pokes through a helmet, but you can cover that with the sphere.
The eye can be a maw, the beetle horns tentacles.
A white circle on the nose (and triangles on the ears) make a wolf head foxy; note on garment the side effect is a white bite out of the moon and two-tone cufflinks.
The earrings can be eyes, for a skeleton.
Stolen from Vilarcane's c-ape-tain, the heart in conjunction with the dragon mask makes a monkey face.
The scaly pattern almost completely obscures the relief on the scorpion greaves, if bugs don't fit your theme. This pic also proves you can use apples to make skulls for pupils without any other skulls showing.
Likewise, the rattlesnake pattern changes the valkyrie greaves from swan-themed to medusa.
On some items, when you place a sticker, you get two copies, mirrored left and right. If the sticker is the eye, you can position it so that the pupil narrows, like that of a cat or lizard, perhaps a dragon, and in this image, I tried to angle the pattern to create a brow ridge.
Don't know if anyone else mentioned this, but you can turn a pirate's flesh into a treasure map with the patch, pen-and-ink drawing, and a Chinese character. EDIT: I think I like it better on the armband, over a pattern that looks like water.
Speaking of pirates, a skull with fewest stickers is a spot, the skull sticker itself, filling the spot except on either side of the jaw, and a Chinese character (I use #6 here) to cover those exceptions. Leaves 5 slots for conventional stickers.
A multi-colored striped pattern turns the laurel crown into flower petals.
When you equip the cropped jacket with a long-sleeved shirt, it makes the sleeves narrow. Then, the cuffs from the maids' pack actually do look like cuffs.
Not sure these rate individually, but maybe in combination: For a sleeker version of bladed armlets, use the mohawk with bandages. For boots in the style typical of a comic book super, use socks and pockets. To make the top of a unitard look different from the legs, I used the zipper. For a statue-of-liberty crown, the cogwheel - the teeth are way too short but still suggestive.
Another one that my not rate as much of a revalation, but I only just realized what I can do with stickers on sunglasses, and what the heck, this is an omnibus post.
Scars can be pockets; apologies if it's been mentioned before. FYI, the devil's diamond-stud earring is the tree sticker, which only works with darker skin tones or a matte (see the girl with the lace bra in previous post), and the gold buttons are a trick learned from Vilarcane: Place part of a sticker over one button, and they all change color.
If you make a kite shield from the wings, attach it to the shoulder instead of the arm.
If you want your pirate to take a page from Ed Teach (Blackbeard), with match fuses woven into his beard, use the helmet ornament.
Tigerlily underwear comes with a BOGO special on ass tats.
