"Girl with curly hair" Charcoal portrait on white paper

Artist

Matthew James Taylor

Medium

Charcoal pencil on art paper

Date

20 Sep 2005

Creation time

1 hour

Tags

Charcoal drawings

Drawings

Portraiture

Comments by the artist

This is A portrait of a girl with really curly hair, it was a bit of a challenge. I normally have trouble drawing hair because it can be so complicated. This time I used hatching all in one direction to build up the tone then I've picked out a few characteristic strands of hair and drawn them in to discribe key curls. This method gives a nice effect.