Inspirational Artistic Styles

Paul Gaugin

Salvador Dali

However, I would like to keep my Self-Portrait Recognizable for the ones that know me but kind of Anonymous for the ones that do not, the style of Salvador Dali spoke to me, his eccentric style is quite stunning and he has a specific trademark, his moustache. He has an self-portrait that is extremely abstract, a mask that is slowly melting together and misforming, but the mask has his trademark, a moustache and for the ones that know him, the link is instantly made.

For the purpose of the Symbolic Self-Portrait I have researched and investigated some Self-Portrait Styles.



Paul Gaugin was one of the artist that caught my attention, his style reminded me of picasso, and it showed me that it doesnt necessarily have to be a boring pose Self-Portrait and that the Symbols dont have to be organized to the extreme, since in his case, the symbols look like theyve just been put there to fill the empty spaces.








I asked my fellow classmates what my signature trademarks where, and almost all of them answered my glasses, which are bold and strong, quite in the style of Buddy Holly, another trademark is the fact that my hair is always in a Ponytail, with a few strands hanging loosely framing my face.

In the lesson of 30-8-2012, I have drawn a simple outline of my face, in free-hand, then I decided to trace the shape of my glasses, to have them down as accurate as possible, before adding the strands of loose hair and the rest of the hair slowly falling on my shoulder.

I decided that, due to the fact that I want to remain quite anonymous, and the fact that I am absolute terrible at drawing, noses, faces and mouths, just take a look at the grid drawing I made of Taylor Swift.

I also thought about symbols I could add, I wanted to get across the fact that I was unknown to most of the rest of the school, and due to Anisha continously singing along to Cher Lloyd I googled her and the first shot that came up was a Police Style shot, also referred to as a Mugshot. Holding those black boards with the name and other information, which is a great way to get across the fact that I am anonymous.