Do you guys remember the avatar I had of Link from the GC (cel-shaded)???????
It took me a LOOOOOONG time to make it. I used Fireworks too.
I first took a picture of Link with a very bad quality, imported it to fireworks and started to change PIXEL BY PIXEL.
But nobody liked it, so I changed to a Mario avatar by the same way. I've also tried to do some other avatars of Nintendo games for fun, and I'm keeping them for when the time comes to change my avatar again.