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]

Thanks everyone for being honest.

TheFegNut: There's only a few reviewers I'll PM. Most of them are too busy to respond, so they aren't all that helpful. That's why I post stuff here that's been rejected. Plus, here, I can get multiple opinions.

Libertie: Thanks first of all. =]
And yeah, the text always seems to be my problem.
I'm working on it though. =]
And I definitely do look around. I'm on this site at least 3 times a day, haha. So I'm always watching to see what gets accepted. nd looking here to see threads like this, and seeing why they were rejected.

Emberfly: Again, yes, text is definitely not my strong suit. And you were 99% right. Only the last one got accepted.
I'll definitely keep trying, just not with music video stills.
Btw, I love the three icons in your signature thingy, and how they sorta form a banner. Super cool. =]

Again, thank you to everyone for being so honest.
Guess my major lesson here is no music video screenshots, unless they look totally normal.
And I still need to work on text.
=]