My Identities project finished a few weeks ago. At the end of the project I was looking at musicians with iconic hairstyles without their hairstyles and seeing if they were still identifiable. To a lesser extent I was also looking at the clothing they wear as well since a lot of musicians clothes are quite unique or extreme. I came to the conclusion that while you could sometimes identify the musician without their hair it did become a lot harder especially if their hair was originally quite extreme.
 Another factor that i didn't originally think about was the pictures of the musicians I was copying. As these are largely iconic musicians I'm working with: Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley etc, they have a lot of well known photos so may be identifiable as they are in the same position as in these iconic pictures of them. Clothing wise I found you could identify the musician if they were in different clothes but still had their iconic hair. Without hair the clothing could sometimes be used on it's own to identify the musician depending on how iconic the clothing is. For example  The Beatles in their sergeant pepper clothing is relatively easy to identify, while Bob Dylan in more normal clothes is harder to identify.

I was also looking at a variety of artists drawings lie Da Vinci  and Schiele. Specifically I looked at four artist's style of drawing and found it interesting what elements of drawing each artist seemed to prioritise. Da Vinci seemed to like defining the muscles  and bone structure of the face while El Greco was more into getting the basic shape down and defining the dark from the light. Schiele was more into using line work to get all the information down and to purely record composition. Le Brun used a lot of black to define faces and make them appear more 3d.