Art Works > Exploring Drawing Techniques and Drawing Materials: From the Ice Age to the present.

In this Drawing after Michelangelo. He has obviously looked at early Greek or early Roman sources. In the Original work he has used extensive cross hatching a method to darkened planes as the fall away from the light. Michelangelo mainly abandoned this method of moving the drawing from dark to light preferring red then finally black chalk which can be rubbed to easily gain the same effect .