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I suppose, use the 1-10 system if that isn't too much trouble and include a comment as to why you rated it the way you did. Rating is for my current avatar.

I don't have a lot of funds so I'm usually stuck with cheaper items and I just threw this together. I'm not very good at avi design so I just use color schemes and this happened to be well under my price range.
I'd greatly appreciate any constructive criticism and ideas.

I'll also include an image of my default avi if you think there's anything I could do with that instead. It usually has a cigarette and is holding either ramen or Alruna's Rose. I don't want to focus too much on this one but I prefer to keep it simple as I like the minimalistic look (even if it looks broke/poor)
"Default Avi":

Thank you.

hmmm...that makes sense. Thank you. The background sort of hides the one item I think makes up the whole thing but without it it gets too bright and doesn't look good to me.
I didn't want to say this but I thought it started looking like a rather gaudy yakuza member so I added a sword and kept the alleyway.

Thank you. Yeah, the gloves help but the hair is a little tricky. The red version looks too bright to me. If it were just a bit darker so the darkest parts were borderline black that would be lovely but unfortunately I don't have any power over that.
I feel red hair though might throw the head out of balance in being too red at that point though wouldn't it?