Download Gimp or Photoshop, get familiar with the tools and such, and use them to make something that would look good on a sphere.

The problem I had with making textures when I started out was making everything too far apart. The eyes were like on the ears :P. Try to make it look sort of smudged and pushed together, and it will turn out normal on a sphere/tori.

Or you could draw directly on to the sphere, eliminating mapping issues using this tutorial:

http://forum.toribash.com/showthread.php?t=141572

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How to make gui textures

mmk i have a tutorial id like to request and im not sure if its already out there... so... i want to know how to make everything back to normal in a mod... :/ doesnt really explain much but like ina certain mods the gravity may be different or the tori may be different in some way... id like to know how to make that stuff go back to the custom rules on the same mod... thanks

type /set mod sambo.tbm thats the default mod

nonono u dont understand, here ill explain better. i mean say i wanted to do a freerunning mod, but my tori was different in some way like my feet or something were bigger and i wanted that stuff to go back to the default stuff but still be on that freerunning mod. if that makes more sense?

I want a tutorial on how to do things like moving forward and launching into moves that get over and under obstacles

can i ask how to make hand textures like fists with gloves on them? but u can see the fingers

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Dude, that's asking for free stuff not asking for a tutorial.