Girl with curly hair - Charcoal drawing

Artist:

Matthew Taylor

Medium:

Charcoal pencil on art paper

Date:

20 September 2005

Creation time:

1 hour

Comments by the artist

This is A portrait of a girl with really curly hair, it was a bit of a challenge. I normally have trouble drawing hair because it can be so complicated. This time I used hatching all in one direction to build up the tone then I've picked out a few characteristic strands of hair and drawn them in to discribe key curls. This method gives a nice effect.

See a larger version of Girl with curly hair (Charcoal portrait on white paper) on my new website.

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