Week 4: Still life - Foreshortening and Difficult perspectives

This is a 15 minute sketch of a skeleton using pencil. The image is supposed to portray the foreshortening principle but fails short in some respects because of the level of detail in the upper part. If it had reached a degree of completeness, the foreshortening would have been more obvious but nonetheless, the shrinking proportions of the spine as well as the smaller ones of the bones of the leg show the sense of depth required.