My Rejected Avatar/Icon., Akward or not? Options

[SkeleBoy]

1.

The image is from one of Within Temptation's music videos.
So she was singing.
When I paused to take a screenshot, it looked like she was smiling.
But I guess it looks really akward?
That's what my reviewer said anyway.
They said it ruined the icon.

What do you think?





Here are the other three that got rejected:

2. The reviewer said: "Graphic choice is awkward, and text doesn\'t match."

3. The reviewer said: "The four color boxes and text\'s color, style, and placement doesn\'t suit the avatar."

4. The reviewer said: "The text doesn\'t match the image in terms of the background glow and positioning, and the image was overly contrasted."

Any thoughts? Critique? Comments?






Oh, and this was the pending one (now accepted):
5. Feel free to comment on it as well. This one's my favorite.

[SkeleBoy]

Okay, well thanks for all the feedback.
I suppose screenshots out of music videos probably aren't the best mage source...
As apparently they all look akward?
Three more of the graphics like this have been rejected, with one more still pending.
I'll add the other three to my first post, so you guys can tell me what you think about them too.

To XTINAA: Where would you propose I place the text? It just seemed like a good spot.

To Superstitious: Yeah, now that you mention that, I probably should have moved the text further away from the edge, being that it's so small. The coloring is sort of a gradient I guess?
It's a texture I downloaded somewhere. And thank you for yet another great tutorial link. =]

To Highwayto4355: Well, that definitely wasn;t what I was going for. Guess I should find a different image.