This Doodle Is Me Now. Thanks, I Love It.

I’ve always struggled to settle on a logo or avatar. It’s not that I’m indecisive—I just seem to outgrow them quickly. What felt perfect last month starts to feel like an older version of me very quickly. So when I started this website and blog, I knew I’d want an icon that actually stuck.

Given my love for Notion (I'm a long-time, slightly obsessed user), I naturally wanted something that matched its clean, minimalist style. When Notion released their profile picture generator in 2025, I jumped on it—and roped in my illustrator partner, Lewis, to help tweak the options to get the most accurate rendition of myself. But even with all that effort, it didn’t feel quite right. Too generic. Too few options. Not me.

Fast forward to a few weeks ago. Lewis and I keep a whiteboard on the wall for to-dos, and reminders, but it mostly gets used as a place for doodles or silly messages. One of those doodles—something he’d casually doodled months ago—had been sitting there the whole time. One day I walked past it and thought:

Wait. That’s it. That’s the perfect website icon.

It was playful. Minimalist. Personal. A little odd in just the right way. Most importantly, it came from someone who knows me better than I know myself. Thank you, Lewis (aka Odditycraft)

So I snapped a RAW photo on my iPhone 15 Pro and got to work in Photoshop. After a bit of editing wizardry:

• Boosted the whites for a clean background
• Darkened the blacks to make it pop
• Cleaned up any weird textures
• Smoothed out the strokes
• Played with curves and colour range until it felt just right
• Exported the final version as a tidy little PNG

Now it’s my avatar across Notion, this blog, and wherever else I need a tiny digital version of myself.

There’s something pretty special about being seen—and even better when it shows up as a scribble on your hallway whiteboard.

See you soon,
Will