A Peek over my Shoulder - From the Drawing Board of Susan Donley » Cool Tool http://petspictured.com/wordpress What's on my drawing board and on my mind Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:12:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Artist avatars: The 50-pixel self-portrait http://petspictured.com/wordpress/2008/10/artist-avatars-the-50-pixel-self-portrait/ http://petspictured.com/wordpress/2008/10/artist-avatars-the-50-pixel-self-portrait/#comments Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:40:56 +0000 Susan Donley http://petspictured.com/wordpress/?p=81 Lisa Stewart, a Net-savvy artist and designer has posted an excellent blog entry "Brand YOU: Your Avatar (Part 2)" on the art of the avatar, how important these tiny self-portraits are to online branding for artists, and how to improve artist avatars. Check out part 1 also!

Prompted by Lisa's call for examples of creative avatars, I combed my Flickr contacts for some that I thought expressed their owner's art and make you want to click through to their photostream:


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donley_sq_icon.jpgMy avatar is a simple reduction of a normal-sized (8x8 inches) graphite self-portrait I did a couple of years ago from a candid photo. After reading Lisa's excellent blog post about taking, choosing, and creating a creative avatar, I'm going to be re-thinking mine. All that detail doesn't reduce well and I've been told the pose isn't the most flattering to me (heck, I liked it because it didn't look "fat"! ;-) Another project for January, after the holiday rush!

]]> Lisa Stewart, a Net-savvy artist and designer has posted an excellent blog entry “Brand YOU: Your Avatar (Part 2)” on the art of the avatar, how important these tiny self-portraits are to online branding for artists, and how to improve artist avatars. Check out part 1 also!

Prompted by Lisa’s call for examples of creative avatars, I combed my Flickr contacts for some that I thought expressed their owner’s art and make you want to click through to their photostream:

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donley_sq_icon.jpgMy avatar is a simple reduction of a normal-sized (8×8 inches) graphite self-portrait I did a couple of years ago from a candid photo. After reading Lisa’s excellent blog post about taking, choosing, and creating a creative avatar, I’m going to be re-thinking mine. All that detail doesn’t reduce well and I’ve been told the pose isn’t the most flattering to me (heck, I liked it because it didn’t look “fat”! ;-) Another project for January, after the holiday rush!

]]> http://petspictured.com/wordpress/2008/10/artist-avatars-the-50-pixel-self-portrait/feed/ 0 A Nifty Slide Slideshow of my Dog Portraits http://petspictured.com/wordpress/2007/04/a-nifty-slide-slideshow-of-my-dog-portraits/ http://petspictured.com/wordpress/2007/04/a-nifty-slide-slideshow-of-my-dog-portraits/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:27:03 +0000 Susan Donley http://petspictured.com/wordpress/?p=17 Pretty swift! I logged into my flickr.com account through slide.com, chose the images I wanted in the slideshow, chose a style and size, then it gave me the slide show code, ready to paste in an HTML or Wordpress page! Cool tool!

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