User blog comment:FistMan Is Back/National Country Portrait in Lifebars/@comment-27106779-20141121233007/@comment-3495717-20141122110732

People clearly care about custom portraits, or many of these custom lifebars wouldn't exist today. A creator doesn't necessarily have to bother with making custom portraits for their own characters, as that can be left up to the one who downloaded the lifebars, or the lifebar creator instead.

In short: Custom portraits are already a thing. People already like them. It's quite fun to make them. I do it.