Untitled

About this work

This sketch shows a tangled group of nude figures—some standing, some leaning—all squashed together in a chaotic pile. Their bodies twist and overlap, with sharp lines marking muscles and limbs. In the background, a bird perches on a wire, and a building with a cross-hatched window sits oddly among the figures. The artist used pencil only, filling the paper with dense, crisscrossed lines to shade the bodies and background. The figures look both real and dreamlike at the same time. Look up cross-hatching to see how artists build shadows with lines like this.