That's what I did for our project in Multimedia. The theme was "Personal" and your photo must be included in the poster. We were required to pass it printed to a size of 12 x 18 in. so that the professor can appreciate it more, I think. I made this the night before the deadline so I spent the whole night working on it. Initially, I wanted to make a movie inspired poster, specifically inspired by one of The Hunger Games movie poster. Unfortunately, I don't have a good photo where I am on my side view that I can use for the poster. I wanted to express my love for movies and books with that poster as well as my admiration for kick-ass heroines. I depict myself as a strong woman and I wanted to show and express it by that poster. Since I could not do it, I just searched for some typography inspired ones. I came across this tutorial of Typographic Portrait like Grammy's Posters.

My first attempt was unimpressive and it didn't look like me in the picture. Although I followed the instructions carefully, I couldn't come up with a good result because I am not that skilled and it needed to be more detailed in the editing. My eyes were already tired and eyelids started to feel heavy. I needed to finish it that night so I added my personal touch instead to create something more like me. 

I am happy with the result. The words I used are those virtues I believe in. I would have used more words but it took a lot of time to finish everything. I really enjoyed working on my poster and the other exercises we did. They emerged the creativity in me! :)