So, a few years back, I ran into this little clipping and posted it here, a memory from my bygone days as an English teacher.
Well, I was cleaning up my image files after installing a new computer, and it turns out quite a few of my students drew pictures of me. If you will forgive the self-absorption, here's a few more.
Early in my career, I came back from a class break to find this on the board. I think this one is from a winter quarter, since those wavy legs represent the long johns I wore under my kilt (I hope).
This one is a bad reproduction of little sketch left on a paper that student turned in with a request for some extra credit. He did capture the high socks and Doc Martens pretty well.
By the time of this "portrait" (a detail from a comic) I had switched to work shorts, or as one of my colleagues always called them, manprees.
This is a little more fantastical representation. A student was thrilled that I let his team produce a Dungeons & Dragons-themed final project and included me in the visual presentation.
This was done by a student who was constantly sketching, all throughout every class, unless specifically attending to a writing task. I am not sure what he was going for with the hat - I habitually wore a backward Kangol, a la Samuel L., and this looks like something different.
Not exactly anime, but something... a storyboard panel for a video I was interviewed for.
This is not by a student - the college's communications and marketing department wanted to use me as a model for an animated character. I left the school before I could voice it; I am not sure where the project ever went. A fun likeness, though.
Having left teaching and moved to administration, I no longer present in a classroom in front of students, but do frequently present in an auditorium in front of faculty. So now it is instructors who sketch me, not students. This impromptu portrait was created a year or so ago.
Art in the time of Covid: one of my faculty sketched me during a Zoom conference.
And lastly - a self portrait. Accurate representation of 2014-205 era Walaka on campus, down to the spiffy kicks I bought at DSW.
Cheers.
