Miss Cumberlege

About this work

This sketch shows a woman sitting sideways, wrapped in a heavy coat. The lines are loose and fast, like quick scribbles—some thick, some thin—giving her a fuzzy, almost ghostly look. Her face is simple, with just a few strokes for eyes and a hat pulled low over her head. The artist used tiny overlapping lines to build up the darks, especially in her coat and hair. It’s not smooth shading—it’s more like a web of marks that catch the light in different spots. Try looking up cross-hatching to see how artists use lines like this to create shadows.