Look at the upper left right corner of any page on my site, you’ll see something new: I’m a cartoon! I’m not quite sure where I got the idea (although, admittedly, a number of bloggers are doing it). Since the unifying theme of this site is me, it makes sense to use myself as a logo. But I rarely like photos of myself, and a cartoon portrait seemed like more fun anyway.
The artist is Mike Segawa, whose work I noticed on a (Not Safe For Work) Buffy fan site years ago – he had done some wonderful pictures of Buffy characters and scenes, and I wanted to track him down to find out if he had any more. Eventually I found an email address and dropped him a note, but got no reply – for two years. I guess he had kept my email, because when he finally did get a site up (mikesegawa.com) he wrote to let me know about it.
By then I had come up with the idea of a cartoon portrait for my site, so I wrote back immediately – but again got no reply. I kept Mike’s site in my bookmarks and visited now and then to see what was new (lots of yummy artwork besides – yay! – more Buffy). A few months ago he mentioned on his home page that the email address had been wrong, and offered a new one. I wrote to that, and finally we were in touch.
It took a little longer to get the project done, but here we are at last. It’s more portrait than cartoon – the family double chin is clearly in evidence – but, hey, that’s the real me. And the lean-back air of ironic amusement, with the skeptical Gromit eyebrows, seems appropriate for my site. What do you think?
top left you have a hint of a smile
– can he thin you down a bit
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I think you should let me photograph you and then I’ll know what i think in terms of whether he captured you or not.
I’ve been rattling around in Belgium for more than a year now … a New Zealander waiting for permission to live here … I ended up marrying the Belgian who lured me here from my Istanbul life.
Anyway, I discovered a passion for hanging out with people for 2 -3 hours and just trying to capture something of who they are with my camera.
Therefore, my only answer can be as above
you can get cartoonized many places on the net today. Just do a google on cartoonize me and you’ll have plenty of choises. I found places that would do it for as little as 3$. There also exist places where you can create look a like avatars for free.