Bourgeois similarly used printmaking and etching with deeply autobiographical and emotionally raw subject matter, often incorporating animal and organic imagery as metaphors for vulnerability and psychological states. Her intimate confessional approach and mastery of intaglio techniques closely parallel Emin's self portrait etching.

Kollwitz was a master etcher who combined technical control of plate tone and tonal atmosphere with intensely personal and emotionally introspective subject matter, creating prints that carry the same vulnerable and confessional quality seen in Emin's owl self portrait. Her expressive use of the etching medium to convey inner psychological states is a direct parallel.

Rego frequently used animal figures and human animal hybrids in her printmaking and paintings to explore autobiographical themes of identity, femininity, and emotional vulnerability, sharing Emin's strategy of combining symbolic creatures with deeply personal self examination. Her British context and use of animal symbolism as psychological self portraiture make her a close visual parallel.