"Girl on pillow" Foreshortened pose in charcoal

Artist

Matthew James Taylor

Medium

Black and white charcoal

Date

27 Oct 2005

Creation time

30 minutes

Tags

Charcoal drawings

Coloured paper

Drawings

Figure drawing

Foreshortening

Nudes

Reclining pose

The female form

Tonal rendering

Comments by the artist

This was a lovely pose, the extreme foreshortening makes it quite interesting. Normally it's difficult to capture this view point in a natural way but I feel that this drawing worked easily for some reason. I really like the patterns of light and shadow as they wander across the curves of her body!