Study of Michelangelo's Libyan Sybil


This was an exercise for Figure Drawing, a study of Michelangelo's Libyan Sybil. Yes, it is a woman----I wondered the whole time I was drawing it, "Is it a man, or is it a woman?" I looked up his finished painting, and it is indeed a woman, and not nearly as lumpy looking as the sketch.

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