hi steemians, this is my latest work which took me about 3-4 hrs to complete. The whole journey of sketching this portrait was really blissful. i used graphite pencil for light shading and charcoal(literally charcoal, made by burning wood in deficiency of oxygen) for dark tones. Although the charcoal i used was made by me, it worked really well, the texture was good, it smudges really nicely and it also erases easily. i haven't worked with branded compressed charcoal blocks so i haven't got any reference for comparison. Overall i really enjoyed using charcoal....
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