It's Erika the Ocelot, my furry self. It comes from a bigger pic, the first pic I made as a gift for my boyfriend and I just loved the way Erika's expression turned out (dude, I'm talking in third person about myself.. freaky).
Badly shrunken it is, too. Gotta change it to a newer version sometime.

Hm. It appears that most of my old avatars have been either deleted in various clean-ups I've done over the years (if I was home I could check my 320GB external hard-drive maybe) or simply lost in the horrible, disorganised mess that is my personal folder. Point is you'll be getting no nostalgic trip through past avatars from me.

As for the current one, I made it myself. As for why? One word.

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It's a cropping of an older pic of CyK. With a little sprite of CyK in the corner. Whee.

Hmm... that's an interesting topic. I don't really know if I can justify Diana the Cat in any way. She is a Sonic universe fan character that used to be an output of my psychological problems in my teenage time. I wrote a pretty long fan fiction about her story to kind of get over some things that happened back then. Thats pretty much all theres to it.
The current picture of her, which is my avatar at the moment, is her most recent character design. The design itself is the result of a continuing evolutionary process, if you so want, and has changed over the 13 years she already exists from a most simple style to a very realistic one. I guess you can call her, in a manner of speaking, a reflection of how my art has developed.

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Umm... and just in case you think so - I never had the intention of promoting my art in this reply... sorry if it seems that way! ^^;