Then There Appears a Singular Being, Having the Head of a Man on the Body of a Fish

Odilon Redon · 1888

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

Madame Arthur Fontaine (Marie Escudier, 1865–1946) The Breadth and Flatness of the Frontal Bone Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716–1806) with a Dog Study of Eleven Heads Portrait of a Young Man Study of Two Heads