You can make an avatar like the one below with Portrait Illustrator. You don’t even need to set up an account with any of these, just create the picture and when it looks ready just drag it to your desktop and upload it (Windows users might need to right click on the picture and save it in the documents folder). Or you can take a screen shot. It’s a bit more work but saves you having to create accounts. Read this blog to learn how to resize and/or convert your image in case you need to to upload it to your blog.
This one was made with Doppelme.
This one was made at M&M’s website.
This one was made with Simpsonize Mebut took a very long time. It might be the most annoying website to use.
Another one you can try is Voki, which allows you to create a talking avatar.
This is a meez avatar. If you get one you need to figure out where to upload it, like photobucket or flickr, to put on your blog.
You can try to create your own Marvel superherolike mine:
You can create a wild thing avatar:
Or you can wimp yourself out:
How about uploading a photo of yourself and seeing how you’d look as a zombie? Check out MakeMeaZombie!
Or you can just take screen shots of your favorite game characters like the following:
This one’s pretty cool and new, go to besmurfed.com to create your own smurf that talks! It can even talk with your own voice.
And those are just some ideas to get you going on choosing an avatar 🙂 I also found this website with more ideas!
Here’s another website with more awesome choices for making avatars! You’ve got to check this one out (make sure to look at the slideshares because those documents have a bunch of great sites.
Mr. G