Thursday 28 August 2008
Art, comics, graphic design and web development by the artist: Matthew Taylor

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.
See a more detailed version of Man seated with hands on stool (Rendered charcoal drawing) on my new website.
'Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.' - Pablo Picasso