Do you make your avatar look like you, even if you're kinda ugly?

Just wondering what people's avatar policy was. I always try to make my avatar look like myself. I just got a ps3 and was making a Home avatar and after trying to make my digital self look like me i was just thinking, no he still looks to good. I know that on the 360 i gave my avatar a gut, because i, sadly, have a gut. :( Do you guys try to make your avatar a realistic portrayal of yourself, or an idealized version, or does your avatar look completely different?

My avatar looks completely different than me.

I'm shockingly handsome, and I like my avatar to reflect that.

mine is usually pretty different, not because I dislike my self image, but because it is usually too much work to make an avatar that looks like myself. So I try to make one that looks like me and then give up partway through and just make whatever.

You kidding me? I'm so ugly so why would I want my avatar to look like me? Hurray for the internet where everyone can be a 16 year old girl :D

It always cracks me up when I go into these virtual communities (like Home) and everyone and their mother has a six-pack. I try to make my avatar look like me, but I won't spend a lot of time on it. Usually it just comes down to hairstyle/color, gender and size.

Mine looks as close to me as I can get it. It was pretty damn good (read accurate, I am a fairly ugly bastard with out being terrifying to children) but then I got a different hair cut and I can't get it quite right now.

Sure do, always wondered how one defines ugly. 
You might think someone is ugly, but that person might think he or she is totally the hottest person alive! 
(you know, like those giant fat chicks running around in pants and tops 19 sizes too small) 
 
Well ok, it only looks closely like me. 
Still haven't found a game where the character creation was "good" enough to make it look exactly like me. 

Yes my avatar looks entirely like me in every aspect, from the two faces, one male, one female, to the pastel colours and general TOIE-ness of me all.  Also, my avatar even sounds like me, for I am a Daft Punk's Discovery.

My avatar could never reflect my prettiness.

Looks just like me.

I try to, but last time I checked, PSN's Home avatar editor is very limited in terms of selection. 360's avatar editor is as well, but since 360 Avatars are not trying to be realistic, it's more of a general idea for what someone looks like rather than Home's attempt to be more accurate and realistic.

I look pretty neutral so I don't mind making an avatar like myself. I don't idealise myself in anyway, I know I'm a skinny guy with unkempt hair, I can accept that fact.

You are talking about the little Xbox 360 dude, the PS Home model or my blue cat-man?

I try to make characters in any game look as close as possible to myself.

Yes. I don't really use PS3 Home anyway, but I tried to make it look like myself. If not a "cooler" version of myself.

I've made mine slightly cuter by adding rosy cheeks and eye shadow, lol. I do have ridiculously long eyelashes for a guy, so it does help to look like me even more. 

My avatar is basically like how I really look, aside from the sweet curly mustache.

" My avatar looks completely different than me. "

I did my best to make an ugly fatass simulacrum that was an accurate portrayal of me. He's still slightly too good looking, but it's pretty close.

I make my avatar ugly, even though I'm beautiful.
 
EDIT:  Oh, those avatars.  I don't have a 360.  Thought you were using avatar as a catch-all term for your in-game representation.

" You kidding me? I'm so ugly so why would I want my avatar to look like me? Hurray for the internet where everyone can be a 16 year old girl :D "

" I try to make characters in any game look as close as possible to myself. "

I just make mine to be whatever I feel like at that time, I just go on and tweak stuff and think, oh this needs changing, oh that needs changing till it looks good in my eyes.
If the final image is an effeminate ladyboy it's time to switch my finger to the reset button..unless it's Link, he can be a ladyboy all day and I wouldn't care.

My avatar looks like me, though once I unlocked the Bullshifters shirt from L4D2 I immediately made it look like me if I was cosplaying Ellis.

i use my hairstyle and general face structure but i dont include parks of me i don't like and i also make myself in slightly better shape usually.

Yes, my avatar looks like me, given my powers. (I can transform into any video game character I want while I'm wearing the crown, so I can just get a random sprite, slap a crown on it, and I'm done.)

My avatar is sexy and so totally like me. Everybody just wants to look like me. (I wish)

" My avatar could never reflect my prettiness. "

Eh I made mine all around. Bigger build than average, but I don't have fat-sacks hanging all over the place. Stocky.

I always try to make at least one in-game character look like me.  My 360 avatar looks as close to me as their technology allows, but I always enjoy trying to do it.  It's almost a game in and of itself to do it.

I made mine look like Wilford Brimley, now I got nuttin' to worry about.

as much as it let me.   There's my nerdy little ass.  What an ugly bastard.
 

I'm not ugly but no, my avatar has long blue hair and wears glasses.

I made mine look as less like me as possible, and as stupid as possible... So.. Shit, wait.. It must look like me then.

My avatar looks a lot like my beatiful self.

i try and make him like me. fortunately i am blessed with good looks and a massive ego to go with it haha

I look exactly like my avatar. 

All my friends made each others so we all looks like us.

i tried to on 360 and ps3, but they don't let you add enough muscles to your guy :P

my friends avatar is the monopoly man...

In Home and 360 Avatar, I tried to make it as close as possible without (a) expending a lot of effort and (b) buying anything.  In games, like RPGs, I never make it look like me. 

Tried to make my Xbox avatar look like me, but PSN Home was too detailed/ too much work/ no one will ever see it to be bothered.

I don't think its possible to make an avatar ugly in the same way that a person is visually "ugly"

" Tried to make my Xbox avatar look like me, but PSN Home was too detailed/ too much work/ no one will ever see it to be bothered. "

As soon and Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony put in Lip Piercings, Gauged Ears, and Tatts, then I can finally make something that looks like me.  So far, only in Guitar Hero I can kinda make that happen.