A concept thats been on my mind, is "abstraction". Since that can mean a lot of things, I should say that I'm specifically interested abstraction in the following 2 contexts:

1. Abstraction in visual design
   

   Image from the book "Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art" by Scott McCloud

2. Abstraction in programming
   • Hiding unimportant, complex information, only showing what matters to the current context.

Abstraction applied to the profile picture I use

So far, I prefer the ascii-inspired abstraction level. I think it's more cohesive with the site as a whole.

Because Cohesion

Im interested in abstraction because I think it might help me create more cohesively.

For example, if you look at my older profile picture...

It's kinda cool, but I want to take it further. I know theres potential, because I got to the level I wanted with a different character:

I really love the shading, crt filter, and scanlines I added. But the extra quality comes at the price of a slower process. And right now I just want to make a lot of stuff quickly.

Fun fact, this character is from the book Stellar Heir (the link goes to goodreads.com)

So thats why I'm leaning towards this style, which can be made more quickly, and leaves more up to the imagination of the viewer.