Materials: graphite pencils on Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper, inch. Reference: sxc.hu
I made this little drawing for the contest we had on Pencil Portraits. I have to admit that even if I choose the photo reference, while drawing it I realised that it wasn’t so easy to do. You can go on the contest page and see the other portraits made after this photo by the members. I didn’t participated, but just tried to give some advices. It wasn’t quite a contest, in the real meaning, because the goal was to achieve more knowledge about how to make a portrait, rather than compete.
See here a video made while drawing this portrait :)
UPDATE: the Pencil Portraits ning website does not exist anymore.
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[...] Here is an amazing portrait drawing video tutorial, of a female, done in pencil, by the very talented Artist Ancuta Iuliana Hodoroaba (also known as “Jullia”) from Romania. The title of this Drawing is “Smile”. You can view the finished drawing by following this link. [...]