Issabella: Thanks for your comments and doing the font. You did a beautiful mandala and gave nice additions to the original. You always add artistic value to all your images.
OMG: Thank you for doing the tut! As with you also, adding additional effects to beautify the image even more.
Sallyanne: I love yours! The font and the coloring is very striking. Beautiful. Thanks again to all who did the tut.

awesome! thanks for sharing

Very well written. You did not leave out any details.
thanks again.

You should write more of these tutorials.

WOW! I'm totally impressed by what is going on in this thread!

Thanks to all for the nice comments!
Very much appreciated.

Thank you. I was thankful for the "over-explanations" as I use GIMP a while now but have never learned it from the scratch. So I found some things I hadn't figured out yet
In my version I blurred the accentuation just a little bit. I'll have to redo it with stroke-paintbrush and more exact circles (one is not centered right) and a different font. Maybe also with different angles

It for sure makes a wonderful avatar

Issabella:
#15 looks great - wow
and i thought about doing the text off-center but not all-across like it seems you did in #18 thats a great idea
- i have been doing bunches of these with different fonts and colors and centered/ not center
It seems that getting the right font is a big factor - but font is not everything

Here is one i made of my name James

My brother often goes by "Devyn" - so here are a couple of those: