"Seated man in burgundy" Male figure drawing

Artist

Matthew James Taylor

Medium

Black and white charcoal pencil on burgundy paper

Date

6 Apr 2004

Tags

Charcoal drawings

Coloured paper

Drawings

Figure drawing

Nudes

Sitting pose

The male form

Tonal rendering

Comments by the artist

You can really lift a drawing off the page when you use strong white on a dark paper. The only difficulty with this technique is it is hard to see the black construction lines when you first plan out the pose.