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Bust of a Youth Looking to Upper Left (recto); Study of Drapery (verso)

Orazio Fidani · 1610–56

Bust of a Youth Looking to Upper Left (recto); Study of Drapery (verso) — Orazio Fidani
Face & Portrait ★★☆ Intermediate

What you practise here

Profile of a youth: essential line and planes

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.

Other artworks to study

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