This is a 20 minute illustration focusing on foreshortening and extreme angles, drawn using a medium charcoal pencil. The skeleton laid down on the ground and looked at from a low vantage point creates perspective and the body becomes foreshortened. This also makes the composition more successful as looking up the body of the object creates a strong line for the viewer to follow up from its feet through to the head and along to the second skeleton. The main focal point is to the left of the page to create a more aesthetically pleasing image. Tone is to show depth in the area behind the skull and inside the ribcage, and also to suggest the shadows cast by the skeleton to give the drawing a more 3D feel.
The sketch would be more successful if it featured the closest skeleton drawn to a smaller scale to leave room for the rest of the second one, as it is bad practise for the picture to continue off the page.The length of the leg on the right also looks off as the femur seems too long. More time could have been spent on the shading of the dark cloth under the skeleton to provide contrast between that and the light bones.
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