Utilizing Monster Manual, Volo's Guide to Monsters, and other assets' art.

I think it should be possible to utilize the tokens from the Monster Manual, Volo's Guide to Monsters, and other similar assets for our own purposes. Currently the only way to make a character using them is to take the monster they're from and completely re-do them, which is a lot of work just to use the token art.

You don't have to take the base sheet and recreate anything, you could just drag the token onto the VTT change which sheet it 'represents' and then set it as the default token on the sheet you want it to be used on (remembering to set bar values and light settings accordingly first too). Failing that, if you wanted slightly more work but more flexibility at the cost of personal library space, press 'z' on a token and right-click>save the resultant image, then edit and/or re-upload to have it available to use for whatever, whenever :)

You don't have to take the base sheet and recreate anything, you could just drag the token onto the VTT change which sheet it 'represents' and then set it as the default token on the sheet you want it to be used on (remembering to set bar values and light settings accordingly first too). Except this doesn't change the handout's picture in the journal, which is what I'm looking for (for example, letting the players see it when they wish0.  Failing that, if you wanted slightly more work but more flexibility at the cost of personal library space, press 'z' on a token and right-click>save the resultant image, then edit and/or re-upload to have it available to use for whatever, whenever :) And this not only uses up library space, as you said, but it would take ages to do. At least 300 pictures to save (to be equivalent to what I'm asking for) that you have to save individually is a big setback when it could just be available in the premium assets. Never mind that this isn't practical at all for free users, who have a meager 100 MB of storage. There is no way somebody could have all the tokens granted by the MM, VGtM, and MToF (among whatever else they might have) and not reach 100 MB.

Ah I see, I didn't get the avatar bit, I was blinkered by tokens sorry. I 100% agree with everything you are saying by the way, just wanted to make sure you were aware of some of the options that aren't immediately obvious :) I suspect there are licensing limitations that might prevent compendium additions from being art library additions but 'you don't suggest, you don't get' as they sort of say! Good luck with the suggestion