Creating New Avatars
Designing avatars for various profiles and virtual meetings lets me be creative while doing something that is work-related.
Earlier this year, I posted about creating some images that that I would use instead of my photo when using Zoom for meetings. The primary reason for doing this was to exercise my creative muscles and to have a little fun while sitting in an extraordinary number of Zoom sessions. Well, now that 2021 is ending, I’m still in a lot of virtual meetings and I’m likely to be doing that for some time to come. So, I started that habit back up.
These “Zoom doodles,” as I have been calling them, have begun making their appearance in more places than Zoom. In my work, I find my self using a number of applications, from Microsoft Teams to Freedcamp to Slack to who knows what else. Each one of these has the option of a profile with an avatar. So, these doodles have now become my new avatars in many of these places.
As before, they all start off with some version of my initials. Sometimes, they are still recognizable as such. At other times, they become distorted, spun, twisted, etc. In those cases, they are used as a base for the design. The following gallery shows some of my newest avatars, created primarily using Inkscape (sometimes with a little manipulation from Glimpse).
