Heh. Its some fad leftover thingy from pixelation. There is that (insanely) talented guy called sals and he mad that “I hate sals” thingy… and everyone made an edit of it. At the end there were about 50 different versions and that one with the silly chainsaw was mine. It was done with AA against some blue-ish bg… so I had to modify it a bit to look ok-ish on other bgs. I also added that “wasteful” dropshadow since I was already using full alpha png.
Well, thats the whole story. I still really like pixelart, but I’m too bad at it (and too slow).
The avatars I liked here were Chris’ space ghost avatars and your “evil” ones, you used in the past. What I like about Markus_Persson’s avatar is the clean look and the surprisingly small size.
edit: oh and matzon, you’ve been photographed by some paparazzi…
http://kaioa.com/k/matzon.jpg ;D