Saint Christopher (recto)

About this work

This sketch shows a muscular man carrying a small child on his back. The man holds a long staff in one hand, and the child clutches his shoulder. The background is filled with quick, tangled lines that look like rough water or stormy sky. The artist used lots of crisscrossed lines to build up dark and light areas—this is called cross-hatching. It makes the scene feel intense and dramatic. Try looking up cross-hatching to see how other artists used this technique.