I've noticed that some of you guys have some incredibly sexy art for your avatars... Being an avid artist myself I would love to know where you got them and by whom...
Mine is Calintz from 'Magna Carta, The Phantom of Avalanche' for PS2 - haven't played this game yet, the reviews were average but the concept art was mostly done by the artist.
Artist: Hyung-Tae Kim, one of the most legendary manga artists ever. (Since I'm NOT a boob man, that's my one criticism of his artworks - some of the chicks have basketball tits but I digress...)

Mine is a fragment of a painting "Fokker D.R.Ake" by Douglas Shuler.

Nice. I googled Douglas as he sounded familiar... Of course I know him - I used to have a huge collection of the 1st and 2nd edition Magic the Gathering cards... He did the infamous white card - Serra Angel. Nice taste you got there m' man.

Dopefisn, 'nuff said

Rena, from Higurashi Nonaku Koro Ni, some sick & twisted anime.

What are the proper dimensions of avatars? Can't see this info anywhere and can't upload anything.

Simply go to your profile information and you'll see add avatar... (I cut the picture up as you can see if you click on the link I provided on the first post of this thread - that's the full image) and yeah it seems to resize it for you...
Good luck mate!

"The Call of Cthulhu" movie poster by Lee Moyer. I'm also getting this tattooed on my back these days. :D

FUCK THATS AWESOME MAN! Make sure you post a pic of the tat when it's done!
Me - I'm a guy but for various reasons and long story cut short, flowers saved my life and I have thousands of macro pictures I took myself of flowers so I'm getting THIS tattooed on the top of my back, am still working on what to put on the lower half of my back...
P.s. Of course, this is not the final product... Still got slight tweaking to do but it'll look fantastic when it's finalised. I CAN'T WAIT!
P.p.s. It's going to be the whole of my top half back. The tips will go over my shoulders down on my chest and around my arms etc...

I stole it from this very website.

This avatar was custom made of my online character at a convention.
Nothing is more amusing than seeing a housecat wielding a keyboard to beat people with.

Thanks, but I still must be doing something wrong. No matter whether I try to load a PNG or a JPG, nothing interesting happens. See this picture:
http://s197.photobucket.com/albums/aa183/Elwro/?action=view&current=gog.jpg
edit: I also tried to attach a picture to this message twice, and the forum just doesn't seem to notice it.

I heartily recommend opening up a support ticket, I also suggest trying a different web browser.
Also are you typing in the address or using the browse button?

Trying IE, testing whether an avatar appears next to this message
edit: It works, thanks Weclock! I forgot Opera wasn't the most popular browser out there.

Marneus Calgar. Leader of the Ultramarines and the baddest mofo the Imperium has ever known. I have no idea who drew it though =(