"Man seated with hands on stool" Rendered charcoal drawing

Artist

Matthew James Taylor

Medium

Charcoal pencil

Date

18 Oct 2005

Creation time

1 hour 10 minutes

Tags

Charcoal drawings

Drawings

Figure drawing

Nudes

Sitting pose

The male form

Tonal rendering

Comments by the artist

This drawing came out well even though I was quite tired when I started it. I put a lot of effort into the shading and I tried to vary the intensity of the outlines depending on if that area of the body was in shadow or not.

One regret is that I didn't draw the stool in, it looks like he is awkwardly crouching in space which of course he wasn't! A picture like this will always look better if the pose seems relaxed, without the stool it looks a bit odd.