Post Your Self Portrait

Extremely cool, Mike and Robert!!

Here's one of my many moods:

I really like yours Mike, mine is sort of similar in the weird way

Love em all..... Leah, you have some HOT legs, all three of them.

Lol JC, I think you have mentioned that before. So you're a wooden leg guy lol

once upon a time

Great thread -- great images!

I really, really like your whimsical, steampunk image, Mike Savad. It's now my favorite of your works.

Disclaimer: The above comment is a true and accurate representation of my appreciation for the aforementioned steampunk image. It is not written to solicit a reciprocally-themed response -- or any response -- from Mike Savad (herein to be referred to as 'the artist'). Nor was the comment written in an attempt to 'ride on the coat-tails' of the artist, or as a not-so-subtle attempt on my part to shout out 'Hey, Mom!' (for which, in any case, a Ouija board would be required). Nor is the above complimentary comment an attempt to increase my own popularity by linking my own name with the work of the artist. I mean no offense by positively commenting on the work of the artist, as he has openly expressed a lack of appreciation for such comments.

So there. In perpetuity. ;-)

Peace



Edit:

And you guys better behave

The perfect hat for your face, Roger. Great choice! :-)

Wonderful images everyone! I did this self portrait recently for my avatar.

I have, and yes, I am...

Crikey, Wendy! (re disclaimer)

Don't know what you mean, Beth. ;-)

I have done a few this past year...

C'est moi!

How's This... A Bit exaggerated in size and proportion...But it's the closest thing I have to a Self Portrait....

very funny disclaimer Wendy, We all know how Mike can care less about comments on his work. So interestingly he makes this thread with his work in the major aspect of it. Hmmm Hypocritical he might be? lol, Ah I figured it out, Mike is especially proud of this one because it is very cool and unique and he is meshed into it and it took a lot to post it with his stubbornness with comments but he couldn't resist because it is so awesome and wanted to share it and make sure people saw it. lol, just playing with you Mike but think I am on to something anyway

I graduated High school in 1984 Harold, handsome portrait Michel, you look like you could be on Star Trek

lol!
Thanks Leah.....
Move over Jean Luc and James Kirk!!

I am increasingly not liking this, but here is mine:

why is that Heather? It is really awesome! maybe you have been looking at it too much. That happens to me looking at my own work. set it aside for a few days and I bet you will see it differently, I only see 2 spots I would slightly change but that's my eye and I think it's great through yours anyway

I am not as creative as a lot of you ,this is my attempt at high key self portrait work. I usually post this image with a poem I wrote ;so here is the poem I post with this photo

WHITE KNIGHT
I look, I search so desperately
for my white knight to rescue me
Would he come by day?
would he come by night?
Oh how I longed for my white knight
To save me from my life of despair
to slay my dragons to show he cared
There have been knights
but alas they lacked
These knights have been all in black
Only to add to my pain and sorrow
I waited and waited hoped in tomorrow
But look coming closer can it be?
My white knight I needed so desperately?
As I move closer to the mirror
yes this I do see
For my white knight has always dwelled
within me

Happy New Year Everyone....Cheers.

It's me

This one is pretty contradictory to who I am normally...but I did it to depict I song I feel very connected to.

this is my self portrait first one anyway

^ Camille, beware of white knights - best to start with a mid grey ;)



Yes, the above did happen. Long ago and far away, but not forgotten.

Needed a winter blues selfie...you know, the period after the holiday hoopla and before spring.

i'm working with other ideas mostly because i have no source of models that i'm willing to pay or work with or talk to. and my own face is cheap. in the next batch i hope to make a new one, i'm not sure if it will come out though. or if i'll toss the mustache in that one for the heck of it.

---Mike Savad

Hiya Mike,

When I was busy doing book covers, I didn't want to spend money on models because it ate up some of my profits so I used neighbors. The girl on "The Crucible" cover is the daughter of a good friend of mine.

The guy on the "Brave New World" is my son.

The woman in 'The Awakening" cover is my daughter.

Sometimes the best models either live in your house or live next door.

I have quite a few, but here are a couple

Happy New Year Everyone! :)

Since all my work is abstract, the only self portraits I have that are reflective of my photography are like the one in my avatar, taken during a recording session in our music studio...my avatar was actually taken during the recording of me singing a cover of White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane if you can believe it and we had all the crazy stage lights going to put us in the right mood. I got really great shots of the other band members that day too, although since they are actually video screen grabs from a non HD camera, the quality is pitiful.

then of course there is my original version.


---Mike Savad

I work and travel alone most of the time, so my self portrait are mostly reflections on mirror or shadow of myself.

Mike: are your mustache real??

Here I am taking a picture of myself for my self portrait

all mustaches are fake, i don't like hair on my face, but wanted an old time look. in the sepia shot, the hair, suit, mustache are photoshopped in there. then it became a gag related to me, so i'm putting it in there for future things.

---Mike Savad

A caricature of myself.

< === That's me, over there.

@Wendy...You forgot "Void Where Prohibited" in your disclaimer. :-p

Photo taken today...digitally altered into a pencil sketch. I am enjoying all your self portraits!!!

This is just how I feel. I can barely tell a pixel from an Ipad.

@ Claude -- I didn't want to give anyone the idea of 'prohibiting' me! ;-)

In every sense of the meaning .... my avatar is a reflection of the artist .... me.

. And if that is true, then let that be the masterpiece of my life.

Not a self portrait, but a snapshot of me checking out the hanging of a gallery wrap above my desk in our new house.

OK, why not -

I'll pull up this "Warhorse" whenever the opportunity arises:

This is the closest to a self portrait I have loaded here...

NOPE Got none

Nothing Fancy.... just the Avatar :)

2 or 3 years ago.... It's about time to do another. David Leffel recomends artists should do a self-portrait every year. ; )

I know this one looks like a memorial tribute but so far, I'm still alive though barely kick'n...

I painted this while looking in the mirror on the morning of New Year's day. What a night!

One of my first self-portraits, done in the OOF (Out Of Frame) style...

Then there is this.....

Hya Brian,

I always liked your art because it's always 'creative.' IMHO an artist is one who thinks, dreams, and lives creatively. You seem to do that every time with your art which is why I love it. You call this technique (OOF), I call it OOTO (Out of the Ordinary) which is how you think. Great job Brian.

Thank you Harold for those kind unexpected words. You made my day for sure!

All my works, when made with sincerity, are my self-potraits. I am in all of them. And often I am not in my self-potrait, because they are not me but something I wanted to be.

Wow, I was surprised to find how fun these were to look at. thanks for sharing everyone.

My avatar is a self-portrait. Here are a few others.



I have found belly dancing to be another way to express myself artistically.

@Dale - Dramatic Dale. Nice self portrait.

@Jani - love the drawings

I did these versions last week. Not too flattering but I was going for the special effect...

You are all so inspiring!~

You guys are asking for it


This self portrait was taken last winter in my living room, without the use of Photoshop.....The background meant to look like an earlier photo, was painted and stuck to the wall..

Nobody would buy it, so I am not posting it on my FAA.

If you run into me sometime, make sure to say hi!

Women artists are hot on so many levels.... :o)

Don't Fence Me In...

Here are a couple of mine

Wendy, loved your disclaimer!

My self portrait is published in the current Jan/Feb issue of Cloth Paper Scissors magazine! =)

Hiya guys,

This is my eye. The reason I love this image is because when I blew the image up and pixelated it, what looks like a map of North America appeared in it. Soooo, I titled it, you guessed it, "An American Artist."

Voilą!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/glow-in-the-dark-artwork-twilight-vision.html

Reflections of glow from a few of my artwork with me.

Not a self portrait, but a snapshot of me when I worked in Spartacus. The movie, not the TV cable show.



Universal's City Walk now sits atop that hill.

Here is a colorful self portait.

here is a colorful self portrait.

Me when I was a blonde! Ha! It's really fun seeing everyones selfies!

Gosh! I just love all of these! .. I just posted a newer profile pic that takes a good 10 years off my age, but it was a simple photo-booth shot done late at night. I guess when there's time you are all teaching me that I'm going to have to put much more effort into this! Thank you all for sharing. I esp loved the potatoe-chips/remote control and the God and Buddha and belly dancing and Morph. I really dont understand Antonin Gauthier's ... what is that thing? Spartacus is cool and Regina... I expect to see you on a parade float or dancing in the street in down town New Orleans carnival or something! (warm smile). I love the feathers!

Amazingl, amazing work here....I am blown away, lol! Roger, your "God" series had me falling off my chair laughing!

I just did this self-portrait in self-defense after an interviewer ignored my pleas to ONLY do a head shot, and tried to do a "full-figure" photo of me for an article. (and I do mean "full" figured...guffaw! The gods were with me fortunately and her camera battery was completely dead...so I was saved from utter humiliation, but since I had mascara on for the first time in a year, I though perhaps I'd better try and do my own head shot for the article, then proceeded to laugh myself silly trying to get one that did not make me cringe. Below was the one I chose to send for the article.

After seeing all these awesome, creative self-portraits, I can see that I need to get busy and do some more!!!

I do not have a sister, but I created this as if I did.

this is me fleeing from that giant cat that came out of the biotech lab.
i was lucky, the smell from the kwiskas truck distracted it from eating me.

This image is done in three dimensions... To perceive depth, Red/Cyan filtered 3D glasses are required.



My primary objective in this piece was to create a "surprise" of sorts... We're used to shadows being not only two dimensional, but usually without color. If however you have a transparent object such as the filtered lenses in a pair of 3D glasses, the shadow cast will also reflect these colors. To add an element of surprise meant to accentuate the subject of "3D", and the 3D glasses in particular since over the years they have come to symbolize "3D stereo", I converted the shadow of the 3D glasses from 2D to 3D but this effect can only be viewed through the filtered lenses of a pair of 3D glasses.

In actuality, there are many 3D stereo formats, but the most common by far because of it's ease of use is the anaglyph format which requires the viewer to view the anaglyph image with filtered lenses. These lenses filter the Red and Cyan overlapping channels from two slightly different perspectives which are combined together but the brain perceives the image as having depth!

I finally got around to creating a self-portrait.

Here's the only one I've got other than my avatar.