I do that as well. A lot. *grins* It's fun! Especially when you do it so well that people think that it's a real one.

Ah, I see. Very cool. I'm taking a web-design class at the moment that has a section on graphics later, so I'm hoping to pick up some good tricks there.

Though, it's a little weird that most people I know don't ever use pictures of themselves for icons. Makes me wonder if I'm going wrong somewhere X_x