D1ary_of_the_Vampz
▸ ▸That's more or less how I feel about avatars; balance (although I wouldn't say you're awful at making them, yours is quite lovely, mostly white (or silver?) with that hint of color, not distracting, but enough to please the eye. I tend to make my avatars something with purple in it as its my favorite color but I like trying out new things. Oh I loooove these gaia avatars! Tell me the backgrounds and I'm make you a couple of awesome ones. I dislike backgrounds in general but the half backgrounds usually aren't that bad.
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Thank you very much for saying so. I do try. ;>
For a few days, I kept this avatar with black hair, mostly because it's the hair I've been looking for (when I finally get to dress my avatar like my OC), but then I decided to go with white as well for the hair, after a suggestion I received. (I also had Ophidian Harmony on my hair to "balance" the black, but then I realized it's still not dispersed enough -- there was no black on the middle of the avatar, or even the bottom.)
I'm fond of making avatars with one dominant colour and subtle accents, or having them stick to two-three dominant colours with equal distribution. Shape is something I take into consideration sometimes, though that's not really my forte. :'D
My avatars used to be primarily black/purple and white/cyan in theme, since those are my favourite colour schemes (purple is the colour I like most, as well! /highfives.)
I liked Smoldering Desolation, since I've been looking for that kind of background for a while (this was more for evoking battle/apocalyptic themes.) It doesn't really work too well in practice, though it's interesting to look at. There's also Glimmering Aurora, which I think has a better chance of working properly in an avatar.