[Lucid:]

it really just takes a lot of practice. I think I read a tutorial on making matching avis on gaia like forever ago, and I used to try and follow that to the t. I entered an avi contest, and being around a bunch of people who made awesome avis, I kinda learned how to do different things and be more loosey-goosey about matching. it also really helps that we have epic layering here, because I can hide parts of items that aren't the right color. XD the huge color palette also helps, because I can just go with "I'll use shade 4 of this color" and all the items of that color will match. ^.^ it also takes some learnin' on what colors the special items are, like, Anka uses the second-lightest shade of Jade.