P-Shop.

(original photobooth pic.)

I really lack Photoshop experience... but playing around with this (strange) picture was fun. I found a more memoir-appropriate photo of myself to work with. I used the smudge and blur tools to make myself become the main focus of the picture (instead of my friend and the bathtub that we're sitting in...), made it all b&w, and played around with the brightness and contrast. I definitely enjoy this a ton more than my illustrator memoir/portrait. It's goofy, and I like that.

Image with crosshatch filter, high contrast, some blur, & a different text... Still weird and goofy, but I definitely like the first one better.

+++//EDIT!
Since I neglected to use the brush tools the first time around, here's another.

Veggie Face.

me!

Self portrait based off of Arcimboldo's Vegetable Gardener... The style isn't very painterly, but I used his idea of using vegetables to make up the face. I also used a profile view of the face and darker, earthy colors.

+++EDIT!
Veg Head, Revised:
I added some drop shadows and contrasty brushstrokes to make things a bit more dramatic...

Arcimboldo.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian painter born in 1527 who began his art career working with stained glass. He is most known for his not-so-standard portraits, in which the faces are made up of things like fish, vegetables (The Vegetable Gardener), and flowers. The objects used actually held meaning in his time; objects represented things like harmony or were religious references or jokes. He dealt a lot with seasons and the elements (Air). It is believed that many of his paintings have been lost over time. Arcimboldo was a prominent social figure in organizing parties and designing costumes. He was also funded greatly by the government and many poets wrote about his work. After spending most of his life living and working in Vienna and Prague, he died on July 11, 1593, in his home of Milan.

Sources:

http://www.all-art.org/early_renaissance/arcimboldo01biography.html
http://painting.about.com/od/artglossarya/g/defArcimboldo.htm