Thread: Avatar Improvement Center

Sorry about not having enough specs. Science or math related would work, as well as surreal scenes.

I haven't ever figured out how to make one of these. It always says that the picture is temporary or something. I'd like to know so I can change avatars without relying on one of these threads.

Pimp my owl

I need a new one.
You can use a new pic.
Please?

I did it in under 2 minutes...



Fable: what kind of pic?

I'm not sure.
Make it something comical.

Here:

In all seriousness maybe we need an order form? Seems like this could get difficult and unorganized quickly if we keep doing it as we are.

Just an Example:

Name:C-Fonz
Requested: (Avatar)
Things I want/like: (Mad Men, Tennis, Buddha etc.)
Art Type: (Vector, Colorful, B&W, Simplistic, Intricate...)

Originally Posted by Maverick

I did it in under 2 minutes...



Fable: what kind of pic?

That's not pimping, you feeble bitch. You sent my av through the rape tunnel. You need to make it awesome with starbursts outlined in complimentary colors and "ya rly" text in the av. How dare you post in the Art Design Team forum you leaking-rectum consort of an unusually aggressive alpaca.

Originally Posted by Taosaur

That's not pimping, you feeble bitch. You sent my av through the rape tunnel. You need to make it awesome with starbursts outlined in complimentary colors and "ya rly" text in the av. How dare you post in the Art Design Team forum you leaking-rectum consort of an unusually aggressive alpaca.

Wow, that's a lot of hate.. maybe you should make it yourself homie.

I am curious if someone is up for making a new set for me.

My hopes:

Avatar;
- Black and white/silver
- Caduceus
- Says "O'nus" on it

Signature pic;
- Black and white/silver
- Says, "Life is an onus. Sanction eudaimonia." and possibly "111" somewhere. Can be hidden.
- Pictures of any of the following; brain, neurons, caduceus, rose, knives, etc.

I hope to see your creative genius soon

~

Originally Posted by Maverick

Wow, that's a lot of hate.. maybe you should make it yourself homie.

That wasn't hate, just a ridiculous response to a ridiculous effort--I don't actually get that emotional about silly animal pictures

I'm pretty happy with my av, but if anyone is inspired to pimp it, or come up with something that suits Taosaur/Lizard of the Way, I'd love to see it.

Cooked up a little something quick for O-Nus, tell me what you think.
At first its hard to distinguish, but you can see your name in the Caduceus.

Originally Posted by O'nus

I am curious if someone is up for making a new set for me.

My hopes:

Avatar;
- Black and white/silver
- Caduceus
- Says "O'nus" on it

Signature pic;
- Black and white/silver
- Says, "Life is an onus. Sanction eudaimonia." and possibly "111" somewhere. Can be hidden.
- Pictures of any of the following; brain, neurons, caduceus, rose, knives, etc.

I hope to see your creative genius soon

~

Is this a rough idea of what you want?



EDIT: Looks like C-Fonz beat me to it.. Did you do that in illustrator?

EDIT: Looks like C-Fonz beat me to it.. Did you do that in illustrator?

I actually only use freeware to make my graphic Art. You can get two very nice substitutes for Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator...

GIMP (Photoshop) - http://www.gimp.org/

InkScape (Illustrator) - http://www.inkscape.org/

Both are incredibly easy to use and I find almost everything that Adobe products can do these ones can too, it just takes a little experimentation.

Hope it helps!

Cool stuff, I'll check that out

Originally Posted by Maverick

Is this a rough idea of what you want?



EDIT: Looks like C-Fonz beat me to it.. Did you do that in illustrator?

I really like this one. The way the black and white contrasts is nice.

Two things for perfection;

Could you fix a nicer border around it?

And perhaps "O'nus" written in white beside it or something? I would like it to seem more of a statement than a hidden message.

Good job guys. Are you able to do signature pics too..? Even a color invert on my current one would be cool.

~

Originally Posted by Taosaur

You need to make it awesome with starbursts outlined in complimentary colors and "ya rly" text in the av.

I just couldn't help myself:

Originally Posted by sunshineDaydream

I just couldn't help myself:

Haha, wow.....

hey thanks

Originally Posted by sunshineDaydream

I just couldn't help myself:

lol, now that's pimping :bravo:

Another one, really similar though

Originally Posted by Kexo

Another one, really similar though

Actually, I like that one--the face stands out a bit more from the background. Is that just a saturation effect with some sharpening?

Would it be possible/reasonable to have the text larger in the background, kind of looming behind the owl, and in the current background colors (no outline)?

I might play around in GIMP myself, but I'm not so good with GIMP particularly and out of practice with image editing in general

Do you mean something like this?

That, sir, is very much what I meant

EDIT: Seriously, that's much sweeter than I expected to come of this thread--thanks man.