I blame Sherry, who suggested I try smiling in some of my selfies…
All the usual materials (Inktense pencils or brush-pen), all fairly fast, all late at night, and all A5
I’m an Urban Sketcher…
Gallery
Apologies
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Mostly drawing 
The images work better with some skin tone unless of course that undermines your drawing philosophy.
No time for skin tones, too late in the evening!
I find the smiley ones a bit crazy-looking, but in a nice, creative way. The sixth one is really nice, the one made with red crayon or pencil, it has a really good expression, a really lively feel to it.
I find it really hard to draw a flattering selfie, as the face is just another object at that moment of drawing. I get so detatched to any kind of self-consciousness. Which is a good thing, I think, particularly as a woman, being used to having my looks reviewed all the time. On my phone camera, I can´t turn off the beauty-filter on the selfie-camera, which I find annoying. There must be so much more pretty people on the internet than in real life…
Crazy-looking is right; holding any expression creates an odd frozen/mask effect, positively creepy! Your un-self-consciousness sounds like the correct approach, and letting the portrait just turn out as it is…
Good try – but actually meant a rather more subtle smile – perhaps not an out and out guffaw!!
Honestly, there’s no pleasing some people! I think a subtle smile held for ten minutes will look even stranger….