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Bust of Pseudo-Seneca

Peter Paul Rubens · 1600–1626

Bust of Pseudo-Seneca — Peter Paul Rubens
Face & Portrait ★★☆ Intermediate

What you practise here

Pencil/sanguine portrait: likeness and facial chiaroscuro

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.

Draw this — free, no account Museum source

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

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