Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelley

This is a picture I did over the summer but forgot to blog. Based on Shelleys poem of the decaying statue of a once powerful ruler. The real Ozymandias was an Egyptian pharaoh but I wanted to update it to show the poems relevance throughout time. Part of the head and the nose are missing missing, but I’m not sure how clear this is. The nose looks a bit like he has a clown nose on and the missing fragment of head looks like its just being drawn wrong. I do like the colour scheme of this image though as it feels cool, clean and classical. I find that the composition also gives a sense of time and history, with its amount of blank space.

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