Proximo

Proximo, a grumpy old bastard from the movie Gladiator, wonderfully played by the late Oliver Reed.
15 min charcoal sketch, this was going to be another pastel portrait but I quite liked it just as a sketch so left it at that. Sometimes things just work (wish it was always that easy).

"Ultimately we're all dead men, sadly we connot choose when or how...but we can choose how we meet that end....so we are remembered as men"