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.

[emberfly]

All of those icons are really.. bad, sorry. I've learned the hard way that putting text on icons is really hard. Making the text look right, making it not pixelized, etc.. etc..

I'm pretty sure all those icons will get rejected. I know that's harsh, but sadly, it's true. I like the icon that the poll is about, but you can't just take an image and resize it to 100x100. I learned that the hard way, aswell. Keep trying though. After you get a few icons accepted, they just keep getting accepted more and moer.