Perhaps a good idea would be to have a testing room in character creation.

Basically, you can load your created character in here and play them for a bit. It could have several rooms in an outdoor setting, with night time lighting, bright day time, sunset, ect, so you could see how your characters skin tones and such actually look while playing. Each room could have a training dummy, while your action bar would have generic attack actions to experience combat sounds.

When you're done, you simply exit and are returned to character creation to refine further.