Where'd You Get Your Avatar?

[Misson]

Wow. This is older than the thread we have in Beyond Pyracy! You certainly dredged up an antique, Mad Jack. (We used to have an older thread on this topic but they cleaned up Beyond in 2005 and deleted everything more than a few months old. Lost many pages of responses to this question.)

Anyhow, the parallel thread is here.

[Aedon]

Mine is a composite of various stolen images, mainly a playing card from MS Solitaire.

I superimposed the stolen skulls over the card designs and "weathered" it, and tah-dah, the Ace of Skulls.

[Black Nate]

It's a picture of a relative, cool huh?

[Rumba Rue]

Mine came from cruising the Internet free clip-art sites.

[Graydog]

Mine came from a genuine photograph of the roughest, toughest, meanest pyrate thar be in the 1700's.

Then I be embarassed to find out that thar were no photographs in the 1700's.

So I just used this har one instead.

[LadyBarbossa]

Aye, an old thread!

Welp... mine... is obviously Barbossa (one of the many promo pics done) with myself added in. I have another copy that has "Don't mess with the Captain and the Lady" written in the avatar.

I various avatars on various other forums. But the above is for the Pub.

~Lady B

[Matusalem]

Mine, I heisted from a colonial Massachusetts tombstone website. Average stuff in coastal New England.

Here's a story: There's a colonial-era cemetary in my old hometown (Bristol, R.I.) where the town moved all the headstones to a lot across the street but left all the buried coffins behind so they could make a "town common" (baskeball & tennis courts, etc), and I'm hoping there will be some kind of inevitable poltergeist uprising.

[Manglin' Maggi Maloney]

hehe, i made my avatar in paint shop pro 7. i wish i were more skillful in it, i'de love both the avatar and the banner to look more like an old and well-worn tavern sign at least that was the original look i was going for with mine, not sure it quite reaches that though, lol.

this is one i use on another site just for fun. but i think it's too large a filesize to use here i think...