John Godsalve, by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hans Holbein the Younger

What you practise here

Holbein: essential portrait in coloured chalks

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

Study of right hand of Erasmus, with sketch of face, by Hans Holbein the Younger Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560) Erasmus of Rotterdam Portrait of a Man in Royal Livery Benedikt von Hertenstein (born about 1495, died 1522) Lady Audley, drawing by Hans Holbein the Younger