Studies of the Head of Saskia and Others

Rembrandt van Rijn · 1636

What you practise here

Head construction: axes, planes and facial proportions

Start from the skull as a ball, place the brow line and the centre line, then check the thirds of the face before any detail. Compare angles, not features.

Public-domain artwork from a museum collection, reproduced for study. 100% real art — 0% AI.

Other artworks to study

The Blindness of Tobit: The Large Plate Seated Female Nude Self-Portrait Drawing at a Window Male Nude Seated and Standing Self-Portrait with Saskia Self-Portrait Leaning on a Stone Sill