Statue of the Women

Graphite illustration for the poetry book In the Wild Places by Sarah Hoggatt. I am the illustrator for that book!

I know that this is a drawing of a statue from the louvre, but I was given the reference photo from Sarah. The photo only contained a picture of the statues from the thigh up, so I made a small reference to the Renaissance 'relaxed' pose (I can't remember what it's called) and made up the lower half from there. Probably doesn't look like the original statue at all

Created with a no. 2 pencil, eraser, and some editing in photoshop.