Raphael master copy - Exercise 2

Whew, I learned a lot from this one... turns out Raphael (Sanzio da Urbino) was rather good at his job

Here's the first one I tried - there was something going wrong somewhere so I abandoned it ...

The second one was a bit "better" so I worked it up, but it's still problematic.  Proportions are still not quite right but there you go.  Good crosshatching practice anyway and the shoulders were interesting to work on.

By exploiting the new science of "grid" based technology, I got the proportions more like the original

and here is try number 3 with most (but not all) of the grid erased (conté on paper)

ok, this one is still way better - but it's RAPHAEL for crying out loud!