Want to have your artistic side shown off in ExpressionEngine 2.0 for the world to see?

With the release of EE 2.0, we’re looking to revamp the default avatars set, and we want your contributions. My ability to produce good art ended when I realized that the macaroni and glue wasn’t as tasty as it first appeared (4 years ago), and now I need your help.

The idea of letting the community contribute avatars came from André Fredriksson (thanks!) at EECI2009. Over a beer, he suggested that it would be nice to let the community come up with better avatars - and he’s right! Rather then buying a stock pack, or pulling free icons from the web, we’ve decided to go to the people who really know what ExpressionEngine users want… the users! This gives us a wider variety of ideas and styles, and lets people have a piece of themselves permanently part of ExpressionEngine.

Excited yet? Me too! If you are an artist and would like to produce an avatar for ExpressionEngine’s default set, we would love to see it! Continue Reading...

Personally, I would like to contribute with a request to keep the avatar of the man sticking his head up his ass

Or if you don’t consider yourself an artist to make an avatar from scratch, there are plenty of great images in the public domain that could be used as the starting point, though of course care needs to be taken if they feature people or products that releases were obtained for free and commercial use.

Whatever happened to this idea?
Also where exactly will this ‘default avatars set’ be used?Forums module in EE 2.0 or here on this site?
Any contributions we can see so far
I know, so many questions over those little images…but they are fun.
Thanks!

It got implemented, lebisol.  Bottom of the 2.0 Change Log:

ExpressionEngine 2.0 features a new set of default avatars. We’d like to gratefully acknowledge the following users for their wonderful contributions:
Cliff Persaud
David Genesse
Benedikte Vanderweeën
Colin Williams
Charles Neely

Check in /images/avatars/default_set/ for the results!

D’oh!
Serves me right for being late to the party.
Thanks Derek!

No problem.  Aaaaand for posterity.