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Thanks, I wanted to make it as similar to my normal avatar as possible - that is where hue and contrast mostly come from. Also the original drawing was done on a B5 sized piece of paper - it wasn't really meant for such a small scale ;)
My regular avatar looks like this: http://ixolite.info/grafika/logo_oko_bez_tla.png
And the original drawing: http://ixolite.info/grafika/oko.jpg
And turned into what later became my avatar: http://ixolite.info/grafika/oko_ok.jpg