Three insightful tips from Drawing magazine on how to draw faces and heads, two of the most challenging subjects to master for any artist.

Portrait of Jacques Gabriel (1698-1782), French architect.by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. mid-18th century. Louvre Museum ~ Jacques Gabriel made quite the name for himself as First Architect to King Louis XV. While First Architect, Gabriel designed many famous public buildings including the Place de la Concorde and the Opera of Versailles. Other important projects he worked on included those at the Louvre and Fontainebleau.

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1926 was awarded to Jean Baptiste Perrin "for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium"

As part of their training in the late 18th century, French artists practiced drawing têtes d'expression, or expressive heads, that display subtleties of human emotion. Greuze made this chalk study in

The Lunatic of Étretat Date 1871 Artist: Hugues Merle, French, 1823 - 1881 Chrysler Museum

Italian, The Head of Saint John the Baptist, 1511. Read about this painting, learn the key facts and zoom in to discover more.