Q24. How do you decide what to use for your characters' avatars?
Do you pick the art you like the most? Do you pick whatever art is the most accurate? Do you prefer to only use your own art? Do you specifically draw/commission icon art? Do you use thumbnails of full images, or do you crop things down into square icons? etc etc
I usually go for a mix of the first two! I try to stick with whatever's the most accurate to the character, but sometimes I'll get art that's Real Good to the extent that even if the art is really outdated and/or missing important things I can't not use it! I always crop images into whatever looks the nicest in a 200x200 box (which is the biggest Toyhouse displays icons as I think?), usually focused on the face. Thyx is the exception; the art that serves as his avatar is in a shape that doesn't crop nicely and would require adding borders to be 200 pixels wide, but that picture is just so incredibly perfectly Thyx (and also just really good in general) that I'm totally willing to throw off the organized symmetry of my character page for it. ;_;7