Charcoal pencil.
Quick sketch of self in mirror.
The light reflected into the mirror and casting a strange light...which was fun. Don't like the rest of the drawing much, got little of a likeness, and don't think the foreshortening was very successful.
"The Lamentation of Christ" or "The Dead Christ"
by Andrea Mantegna.
This is one very early example of foreshortening.
Mantegna was very interested in extreme perspective.
This painting is obviously distorted, but I think it almost feels like the feet are in the viewers peripheral vision, and this distorted just serves to drew the eye directly to the face.
foreshortening is often used by the Renaissance artists to create an illusion of depth, but in this painting the artist is using it to draw us in.
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