[CR]Drawing a living model

Drawing a living model is one of the most interesting phenomena of art.

The first models of professional artists were customers, and the most noble ones. As a rule, only the face was written from them, for the painting of the costume and other things the servants posed or used mannequins. Later portraits of family members of the artists themselves appeared: parents, wives, children. Beloveds represented a separate type of models: their images were repeated not only in portraits, but also in many paintings, personifying a certain harmonic ideal of beauty for the artist ...