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Thursday's effort is based on a painting titled 'Portrait of an Elderly Man' by Francesco Bonsignori dated 1487. 

The drawing was done with mechanical pencil (HB lead), Muji black pen to fill in the pupils, and Japanese watercolors for the background and garment coloring (black and red, respectively). 

The original painting is very dark and I wasn't able to see a distinctive hat on the subject's head though there apparently is one due to the way the hair is in the image.  So the background in this practice piece (that includes the area for a hat) has been painted black.  I'd prefer the black to be darker so the face stands out better, but I'm going to leave this one as is.  

This 3/4 view of the face was interesting to do, since the neck has several folds due to the man's weight and age, and there are some prominent wrinkles, a dimple, and a face indentation to include.


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