"Twisted girl" Charcoal drawing with foreshortening

Artist

Matthew James Taylor

Medium

Black and white charcoal

Date

3 Nov 2005

Creation time

30 minutes

Tags

Charcoal drawings

Coloured paper

Drawings

Figure drawing

Foreshortening

Nudes

Reclining pose

The female form

Comments by the artist

This is a difficult pose and there are a number of things wrong however I am especially proud of her feet. I always have trouble drawing the underside of feet but somehow in this drawing I managed to do them well. I think the reason why feet are so hard to draw is because when you stare at them long enough they start to look like some horrible weirdly shaped things and that can freak you out a bit! (I don't recommend looking at her feet for too long!)