Day two hundred and sixty-three: I wasn’t satisfied with Adam’s head in yesterday’s sketch, and so I tried a closer study of the profile from Dürer’s masterpiece. One of my favorite things about the entire engraving is how much Adam and Eve look like statues of Greek deities, perhaps Apollo and Venus. Of course, the snake and the apple give away the biblical narrative, but by zooming up in this drawing, I think the classical male head becomes very apparent. I must learn to draw classical hair, however. It’s very tedious, which is why this part is incomplete. Quick sketches of curly Greek-god hair like this can look like a sloppy mass of squiggles, if I’m not careful.
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