Durer was an excellent draftsman, working in this genre throughout his life. Among his drawings – and instant sketches, and the most complicated compositions, and detailed sketches for future paintings. Many works of this kind can be considered as independent works.
Most often the artist drew a pen and ink, but no less skillfully owned and other techniques – brush and ink, charcoal, chalk, silver pencil. Creating “Etude 93-year old man,” he, for example, used a brush, a pen, ink and white paper.
Diverse color, sometimes Durer painted on colored paper. Perhaps the most famous drawing of Durer is the “Hands of the Prayer”, 1508. It is executed by a brush and ink on a dark blue paper and is an etude to the altar image ordered by the artist Frankfurt merchant Jacob Geller.
Etude “Three Hands” by Albrecht Durer 
Hands of the worshiper by Albrecht Durer 
Etude of the face of a devout woman by Agnolo Bronzino 
Étude d’un homme de 93 ans – Albrecht Durer 
The death of ten thousand Christians by Albrecht Durer 
Love and Death by Francisco de Goya 
Study for the composition “Dance” by Frederick Leighton 
The Apostle by Albrecht Durer