At one time I did a research into the human form in art history, which was not only very enlightening but lead me to illustrating the Matrix Man. I produced a chart consisting of 31 illustration of sculptures and paintings of the human form ( photocopied from books) which roughly covered the world civilisations, right from what we call primitive up to our present day modern art. An interesting observation is the primitive sculptures and paintings are in general more powerful and gripping than there modern counterparts. Take a look and judge for yourself sometime. With all this information it became clear that the Greek classical sculptures represented the aesthetic ideal, perfect form which Western culture has returned to consistently down the ages. To the uniformed eye it may not be apparent that the Greek classical sculpture is based on rules of geometry. At this point I investigated those rules. There are a number of ways to measure the human form, but I chose to use the eight heads high scale for measurements. So on a large sheet of drawing paper I made eight horizontal lines, eight heads high. From the proportions of one head measurement all the other needed measurement and intersections could be found or worked out. The finished result was a mass of criss-crossing lines, with a figure looking very mechanical to the eye. From this the form was overlaid, rather like placing the flesh over the bones you could say. After completing the drawing I realised that the man had arisen from the matrix that was created with the information. This matrix or womb was the mans birth place, from which everything connected to him was complete within that matrix. So I choice to do a finish illustration of him coming into being using colour and the whisper like ether effect seen on the figure. The lines you see in the finished illustrations are only the minimal of the original intersections made to create the first drawing of the figure. Finally this project was done sometime before 3D modelling software became available to the computer. However I got more out of my research than 3D software could possibly provide. The illustration here is a close up of an ink and crayon version done on cartridge paper. I hope by sharing the creative process with you it has given you more visual enjoyment and understand as to how what I called the Matrix Man came about.