My drawing/avatar

[Bubbles]

Here's a picture of my avatar. Critique it please and don't go lightly on me cuz I'm 13. The pic is from MTG(Magic the Gathering), which I copied by hand with pencil and partially colored with PSP.

Also, I'm not sure how to make the pic smaller, I think I have to edit the original on my computer.

[deadsuperhero]

That's good! I recommend you color the whole thing! 

[MrColossal]

First thing I would suggest is halving the size of it.

Also, please don't use such a large graphic as this in your avatar. It is 400+ kb and the avatar shrinks only the size down to 60x60, it's still this large image but it's displayed at 60x60.

[Bubbles]

k, thx for the tip

[Mikko]

Since avatars are quite small pictures, you need to have clear picture. Resizing big picture to size of 60x60 always makes it blurry. I suggest you use sharpen and curves tools in your psp while gradually making the image smaller (in PSP: image->resize).

After that it would be good to pixelate the image by hand, but I think you'll see quite an improvement even without that.

There was a good "mini-tutorial" about pixelating a larger sketch in some topic not long ago started by Penquinx (if I remember right).

Remember not to save over the original, or you'll probably have to scan it again.

[Bubbles]

Here's my avatar now