How to make a cartoon image of yourself

Lots of trial and error with apps

For the new banner, as seen above, I wanted put a colorful cartoon image of myself in there, with some text. There are so many JPG to Cartoon apps out there, how hard could it be to pull it off? Easy, right?

Not exactly.

I spent several days going through all the apps, so you don’t have to. Most are awful. One is not. I saved the best for last, so please…