sketches

This sketch is the seventy-fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year…

Day seventy-four: I must admit I do love some good old-fashioned classicism. This quick sketch explores the classical through the lens of the 19th century, and is loosely based on an angel’s head from a study drawn by Edward Coley Burne-Jones. I decided to draw it because of the bold, wavy hair, which reminds me of Greek and Roman marble sculpture. The face in my version is a bit narrower than it should be, and thus detracts from the classical effect effectively captured by Burne-Jones.