How does someone make familiars?

No - as DarkestKnight already said, they already exist as beings in their own right, you do not make them, so you have to conjure, or invite them to be with you, or as you have noticed, ask a known entity to lend you one - as @Lyubov also mentions above.

You would then develop a relationship with that spirit (or spirits), up to and including providing it with a vessel to help it stay near you.

However…
… what you can make is “servitors”.

Also called thoughforms. And you can give those vessels also.

This is not a beginner working imo - you need to provide the specifications for the servitors behavior and put some intensity of directed energy though intention into building it. For this reason they tend to get stringer over time, but you can take your time and keep working it to make a great servitor.

Some people share them on the forum (search “free servitor”) as this helps them grow. They become egregores when many people work to build them.

Here is a popular post on how to create servitors. There’s lots of books about this kind of magick also.

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