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The picture above is from the discord group I used as an example.
There is no tutorial for creating characters. You either figure out what goes well with what, or you don't. It's all about personal preference. I for one change the tattoo stack for each character I make or I apply a similar stack to a batch of presets. Months later maybe that same stack doesn't look as good to me as it used to so I improve it again and again. It takes time to even figure what you are looking for. Trial and error until you are satisfied with the result. But if you are going to use lots of tattoos for skin effects you should use a plain skin. Then you add shadows, highlights and other specific enhancements for skin tone, breasts crevace. It's quite hard to get everything right ngl. Look at other presets that you like and use that as a base. Choosy preset plugin allows you to copy selected categories from another preset to your own such as skin and tattoos while you can edit the rest to your liking. ExtendedPresetManagement plugin allows you to change and browse preset folders so you should change to Character folder if you use the modpack to see completed custom character presets.
First thing you should do is to switch to a LO highpoly body because the default one is very boxy. Use one that has the rim light issues fixed. You'll notice a strong white glare on big breasts from sharp angles if the LO body version you picked was not fixed. There is no best body body but I usually stick to LOHiPoly body v2.12.1350 beta02 for general purpose. The one with SKB shapekeys transfered and rimlight fix by SuzuAma.
On other occasions I use LO highpolybody HighHeel Thicc, LO highpolybody RV or LO highpolybody with hymen (the one with a blood drop in the icon. You need to equip a custom hymen as pants or swimsuit).
For the most part I use SKB skin2 BASE and add effects with tattoos.
For the face I usually use the FB faces by Nakuroha #7968 (variants of this icon
)
or sixima NPR FB face with cmZMR v4+ shapekeys
. This allows for transparent front hair and eyebrows.