ok here we go then:
Best
abr
Well of course I'd feature this, I made it and it turned out p damn good. I do have some alternative colorations that ABR didn't end up choosing:
the more dbz inspired variant
the pinker variant
the way too bright hair variant
antemortem
Always liked this one, really well executed Medusa from Soul Eater which always has cool looking characters. I think he might've had the avatar de-linked tho fsr, a shame.
cantsay
Can't go wrong with some really solid ginjinkas (is it still called gijinka if it's a dude tho?) and this Aegislash is grade A tier.
ciran
Another one that I put together, this was the variant where I really went all out on the color spectrum and ignored trying to make the colors shade in the typical Pokémon style and fortunately Zarel still accepted it. Here's a more modest version:
dawoblefet
This is one real dapper looking Wobbufett and it's pulled off really well.
exeggutor
While still quite vanilla, the fossil variants of these still look so good.
jdarden
Even if I almost always view this one incorrectly (thinking it's right hand is its beak), Songbird from Bioshock Infinite is an amazing looking villain and it's faithfully recreated in sprite form.
kalalokki
Duh, it's my own. Based Bowsette by Gnomowladny on Deviantart. There's also an alternate variant without the skirt that I didn't end up choosing:
And while I'm on the subject of myself, I'll just showcase all my earlier ones too:
This was my first custom avatar, made by Wobblebuns, and it's Ginko from Mushishi, one of my fav animes with just the greatest atmosphere and my request turned out beyond my highest expectations.
Even if I really liked my first one, I like to change it up so I went with Ruby from RWBY together with a very cute Litten sprite, both found from some random Deviantart artist. I only combined the two and added the rose petals for that extra flare.
Going back to Soul Eater, here's Excalibur in all his splendor for my 3rd avatar, also made by some random Deviantart user. I did experiment with some different poses that existed before I settled for the one above:
kalalokkixmas
Not done yet, here's my xmas variant I made a long time ago and is still using. I wanted to go all out on the xmas theme, all others just used their reg one with like a boring hat or something. I turned the FRLG robber in to Santa and combined it with Delibird and some Pokédolls from RSE.
legitimateusername
A bit unorthodox, but GLaDOS from Portal is pulled off very well here.
lifeisdank
lifeisdankxmas
Birbs are very good
luigi
To toot my own horn, another of my creations with the XY preschooler that I made all by myself, based on a BW one I believe, combined with a nice looking Snorlax sprite I found on Deviantart. Really digging the little Charizard plush head I managed to squeeze in on the backpack that's there on the original art.
nui
Made by the same guy that made my current Bowsette avatar, was never the biggest fan of Gurren Lagann but their spritework is top notch as usual.
penquin
AAAAAAAAHHHH it's so cute!!! I found this perfect Piplup sprite and could then match it perfectly with this preschooler that I turned in to a little cosplayer. Such a nice duo.
ridaz
No idea who that is, but it's always been baller.
simia
Always feature the Don.
skullknight
Man, what a good looking avatar by Wobblebuns once more, depicting the badass character Skull Knight from Berserk. And how they're matching so perfectly with username too. Oh, what's that? This alt belongs to me? What a keen eye you have! Yes, I have another custom on my alt, sue me.
splxraiders
My favorite from the initial batch of SPL team avatars I made for SPL X, really dig the blue flames and that whole aesthetic.
sunfished
Sunfished's own OC and it's just wonderful spritework all-around.
teremiare
Wobblebuns is the goat and the Lord of Cinders from Dark Souls is just 10/10.
tunaface
As mentioned before, this was one of the first custom avatars I made and I spent a really good amount of time getting this one just right.
Tunaface was always using an avatar depicting a business man in a suit with a tuna for his head and later got a Pokemon variant done of this where it was Basculin instead. When they got gdriver I decided I wanted to create a custom based off of that and this is what you see now.
typhlito
Another really good sprite artist that made their own avatar and it just fits so well.
wcop2019asia
This was one of the half split of team avatars I made alongside rozes, and these two characters fit great together after a few modifications to the ninja.
wcop2020germany
One year later I added a pint of beer to Bruno here and and did some slight recolors to Urshifu, also turned out great.
xjoelituh
Blue flames are always cool and #freecubonealola
xshiba
Remember kids: Wobblebuns is goat.
zareldigimon
It's Digimon, so ofc it's good.
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I'll make another post tomorrow on the worst ones, because boy there's a lot of them and I don't have more time today.
