Yorick

Charcoal and Digital Colour

The typical pose to see Yorick in is very introspective and calm- the skull cradled delicately in Hamlet’s hand, upraised. I decided to invert the pose, jamming Hamlet’s fingers into the skull’s eye-sockets, Yorick hanging from his hand, off to Hamlet’s side.

For all as Hamlet’s portrayed as an indecisive wuss, he did murder three people by the end of the play, and did succeed in getting his father’s revenge. I didn’t want to gloss over Hamlet’s violent confrontations with death- it’s not all calm monologues.