Jason Seiler, who graduated from Memorial High School in 1996, is a Chicago-based professional illustrator working for publications and magazines across the country. This month, Seiler received news that his portrait of Pope Francis – which took him a total of 70 hours to complete using a variety of reference photos – would be used for the cover of Time Magazine’s Person of the Year issue, which came out on December 23.

Many of his other illustrations, which include caricatures, portraits, and sketches, have been featured in publications and used by companies such as Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Disney, and Universal Pictures.