Avatar Assignment

I have been thinking about the assignment, and working on some small little projects in advance I start my actual avatar. I have decided that I don't want to use any eyes, lips etc from the internet. Instead I want to just use photoshop itself. For exmaple, I may want to use liquify or the tool to enlarge features, for example the eyes or ears. I feel that I can do a really good job by just using the photoshop elements because I have a picture in my head of what I want my avatar to look like and that is just using the photoshop tools included.