Simon is a high school sophomore and just started taking a graphic design class—I’m so excited! Since he’s learning to use Illustrator, I showed him the drawing above, which I made with the pen tool based on a webcam selfie in 2002. He was actually a bit impressed, high praise from a teen to his mom.
I have a folder of portraits of myself, in case I want to swap out my LinkedIn profile photo, I suppose. This is one that I conceived of when I was gathering photos to develop and print in my photography class at Truman College. It was taken by my coworker Bob outside the Wrigley Building in Chicago, where I was working at Stagebill 1997-2002. The fur and leather were both fake but I thought it was a cool, vaguely Russian look.
I have a few images from social media generators that are fun, like my Mad Men portrait.
Like many people’s phones, mine is full of selfies prompted by “my hair looks decent” or “do I have something between my teeth?” Below is one of those from about 10 years ago which actually is my LinkedIn photo. I had run an errand at the mall and got talked into having my makeup done at Nordstrom. I came away with some very expensive eye cream, which I never used, and this selfie.
My all-time favorite though is this old school mirror selfie from about 1988. Love the perm and the homemade scrunchy headband.
I love your self portraits and could add a few more, for I see them in my mind’s eye. Your choices here are perfect!