"Self Portrait" Charcoal drawing on brown paper

Artist

Matthew James Taylor

Medium

Charcoal and white pencil on dark brown paper

Date

18 Oct 2003

Creation time

Approx 2 hours

Tags

Charcoal drawings

Coloured paper

Coloured pencil drawings

Drawings

Portraiture

Tonal rendering

Comments by the artist

I wanted to do a long detailed drawing but I couldn't find anyone to sit for me, so I drew myself instead! I really liked this self portrait when I first drew it but now I can see so many things wrong with it.