Back to Avalon Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 I'm tired of the standard-issue, generic avatar that we all got when we joined. Last night I tried turning a digital photo into an avatar, but I couldn't get the file small enough. I'm curious where everyone got their avatars, be they photos, graphics, whatever. I'm looking for ideas. Link to post Share on other sites
Ceebs Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 Er, the internet. I googled a photo of an old-timey Hollywood actress with whom I want to do very gay things because she's super badass. Link to post Share on other sites
AmorphousBlob Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 Mine's just cute fanart from the interwebs Link to post Share on other sites
Elision Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 Yeah I stole mine from the internet as well Link to post Share on other sites
Snao Cone Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 A magical leprechaun appeared and gave me a USB stick with images on it. The leprechaun said "If you pretend to be this person on a busy forum by using their image as your avatar, I will give you a pot of gold." But then I got drunk by myself on NYE (in my defense it was -40 out and I had bruised my tailbonea day or two before) and took an upside down selfie at some point during the night. I turned that to black and white and voila. The horns are merely seasonal. (True story.) Link to post Share on other sites
Duke Memphis Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 I drew it on a piece of paper when I decided that I should use it instead of a Minecraft obsidian block. Link to post Share on other sites
Polygon Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 Someone posted a picture of their dog on Reddit, and it was the silliest face I've seen a dog give. Around the time I was going to change my profile pic I couldn't think of anything, but then I thought about the dog and figured "yeah, that perfectly captures my incompetence", and went with that. Link to post Share on other sites
AmorphousBlob Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 1 minute ago, Polygon said: "yeah, that perfectly captures my incompetence" I feel ya man Link to post Share on other sites
natural blue Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 like, 2 years ago, i was going through a huge phase and i decided to google "edgy profile photos" (i know. im cringing too, believe me). everything seemed too artificial and cringey, until i stumbled upon this, and proceeded to use it for everything. Link to post Share on other sites
Ashmedai Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 My current and last DP's were both from random dark art blogs on Tumblr. Link to post Share on other sites
Hayley Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 It's a photo that my significant other took while we were on holiday last year. We were visiting Bedruthan Steps in Cornwall, England. Link to post Share on other sites
RenalWaldo Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 This was a picture of my mii from the miitomo app. Link to post Share on other sites
scarletlatitude Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 9 hours ago, Lusnaofer said: A magical leprechaun appeared and gave me a USB stick with images on it. The leprechaun said "If you pretend to be this person on a busy forum by using their image as your avatar, I will give you a pot of gold." But then I got drunk by myself on NYE (in my defense it was -40 out and I had bruised my tailbonea day or two before) and took an upside down selfie at some point during the night. I turned that to black and white and voila. The horns are merely seasonal. (True story.) This totally is the truth. I wasn't there but I know it to be true. Mine is a google image Link to post Share on other sites
Lemonsky Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 I drew my avatar myself since it feels more personal to use something that is made by myself. Now that I think about it, using something not made by me as an avatar has always made me feel at least a bit uneasy. Link to post Share on other sites
Ldlelee Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 Mine's by one of my favorite artists who draws a lot of Bungou fanart. The collection it's from is extremely popular, so I saw it a lot while browsing Pinterest and whatnot. This one is of Nakahara Chuuya, my spirit animal and precious baby boy. I've tried to change it, but I like how this one looks so much that it might be staying for a while. (The artist link is in my signature, in case you guys are curious.) Link to post Share on other sites
Epitaph Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 Thievery and piracy. An artist on DA made the original image and with some shrinkage I was able to fit it to data limit standards. Will get creative one day and make my own pic so I don't have to mooch. Spoiler Dude makes seriously good moochworthy pictures though. Link to post Share on other sites
Captain_Tass Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 My avatar is a bit of a self-portrait. I didn't want to use the picture of the anonymous cat cursed image thing with the blue filter on top on AVEN anymore, (not that I don't like the image, I just wanted something a bit more personal and less stolen from reddit) so I drew this digitally using a dumb selfie as a reference. I will admit I don't own the scarf-thingy, but whatever I did I couldn't get the lower half of my face right so I fell back into my old strategy of drawing a scarf over it. I actually liked how it turned out, so I went with that. The background is just an agender flag with lowered opacity. Link to post Share on other sites
Karst Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 I used a character from my favorite webcomic: http://daughterofthelilies.com/ Link to post Share on other sites
The Dryad Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 I was looking for non-white dryads, and found this one- which is either a videogame character or comic character, something along those lines. Who knows. Link to post Share on other sites
The Dryad Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 18 hours ago, Lusnaofer said: A magical leprechaun appeared and gave me a USB stick with images on it. The leprechaun said "If you pretend to be this person on a busy forum by using their image as your avatar, I will give you a pot of gold." But then I got drunk by myself on NYE (in my defense it was -40 out and I had bruised my tailbonea day or two before) and took an upside down selfie at some point during the night. I turned that to black and white and voila. The horns are merely seasonal. (True story.) The real question is what did you do with the pot of gold, though. Link to post Share on other sites
Anthracite_Impreza Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 The magic of Google, and five glorious hours (minutes) of getting distracted by Imprezas. Then a bit of editing because I'm a boss. Link to post Share on other sites
Snao Cone Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 1 hour ago, The Dryad said: The real question is what did you do with the pot of gold, though. The leprechaun never gave it to me, as I did not complete the quest. I wonder where that leprechaun is these days... Link to post Share on other sites
Joe the Stoic Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Ol' Vinny made it. Link to post Share on other sites
TheAP Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 I found it from a google search for purple Halloween images. Link to post Share on other sites
krystal_muzik Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 My avatar is a picture of a cat I used to babysit. Link to post Share on other sites
ColeHW34 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 It just poofed itself on my avatar. Link to post Share on other sites
Larkaloke Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 It's basically always something I drew, often from my comic but not always. Link to post Share on other sites
Jusey1 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 I commissioned someone to draw my fursona. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Deus Ex Infinity Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Mine was done on commission in collab with a fellow artist. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Deus Ex Infinity Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 22 minutes ago, Jusey1 said: I commissioned someone to draw my fursona. Looks great! Are you furry? Link to post Share on other sites
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