User blog comment:Kacj321/The Elder Scrolls V: SKYRIM Exclusive PAX Interview with Lead Artist Matt Carofano/@comment-4272755-20110829115852/@comment-4113369-20110830132955

Don't flatter yourself :P I read somewhere that Yes Man's face was based on some smiley that would appear as first search result in google if you searched for a certain word/term (can't remember atm). I saved the image, and when I decided to get an avatar on the wiki network it was one of the few images I had that looked like a proper avatar. I just sort of rolled with it.