WPAP or Wedha 's Pop Art Portrait is a group art illustration headshot crisscross geometrically with the use of special colors contradictions . The dimensions of the images in - trace ( redraw by reference) does not change , so the final appearance of objects in a clear transformation and resembles the original so easily recognizable . This painting technique discovered by Wedha Abdul Rashid , a graphic artist from Pekalongan , Central Java , in 1990. Early WPAP popularity is when used to illustrate stories arswendo atmowiloto work and Hilman Hariwijaya in O magazine .