Avatar drawing reference guide
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So to get started, let me put up mine as it has details much smaller than a pixel when it is shrunk to 50x50:
The most frequently mistaken thing in drawings of my avatar (of which there aren't many, but of those that have been done) is the hair length. It has been mistaken to be not very long in most cases, and has also been confused with a hat. The two panels that drew my avatar in my level 50 celebration game thought my avatar's skin was grey thanks to the 50x50 avatar icon size combined with JPEG compression.
I'm willing to join in, but I think I should redraw my avatar in the sandbox first.
Here you go!
I was using some random thing I saw on the internet as my avatar up until now, but it has been personalized!
The first thing to note is that the words "Grammar Dalek" are placed beneath the plunger and gun. The 'grille' under the head has a darker color for the inside and it uses the same color as the rest of the dalek. My eye is purple and my lightbulb thingies have purple wires going through them. finally, I have made my round things orange and shiny.
Hmm. I don't really care if my avatar is drawn "on-model", it's already more than I could (or would even dare to) ask for if she's drawn at all, but here are some references anyway:
^ Bigger version of my avatar (probably doesn't look very good, this was the first thing I ever drew in the DC tool). (Yup, those eyes are peach and pink, not white and red; darn you, image compression!)
And some of my full drawings of the character: 2010 coloured drawing, recent line drawing, detailed sad drawing and a very big-bellied Velli as seems to be commonly requested in prompts lately.
(On a side note, if "Vellidragon" comes up in a game prompt, I think it's perfectly fine to draw any random dragon.)
My avatar doesn't really get drawn much, but just in case it ever comes up, here it is
Yes it does... the compression method created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group is only really suitable for actual photographs - anything computer-generated (that isn't an image that took hours to render that is supposed to be extremely realistic) looks terrible. Applying it to tiny images looks even worse, because in those cases detail matters much more.
This is a larger version of my avatar
You can also use this for a reference
Or this
Crappy mouse tutorial a la Ciriart on how to draw a Joekie
By the way, just to be clear: I don't want or need games about me and I actually don't give a duck how people decide/want to draw me.
This may not have anything to do with my avatar, but one thing people often have trouble with is pronouncing my screen name.
It is a hard 'K', as in 'C-nuf'.
(I couldn't find the original so ihad to redraw it. The original is WAY cuter!)
Also a stupid How-2-draw-Nova-thingie:
It's a JPEG, but this is what it looks like bigger.
If you have a complicated avatar that is hard to draw and you have seen others have difficulty drawing it correctly, post a large version of your avatar (along with maybe some other examples of it where it is drawn correctly) here. Additionally you can explain significant features that tend to be confused or omitted.