Hello fam! It's been a while here, I've been so busy with work lately and one of them is this right here. A portrait mashup of Madam Tokunbo, a retiring MD at United Capital, a leading investment banking corporation.

The idea was to instill some nostalgia by capturing 2 important stages of her life, I think I understood the assignment!

This was also my first time drawing on a grey paper and I have to say I really loved it!

I usually sketch with graphite but because of the grey paper I notice that I could barely see my strokes so I switched to charcoal. That meant I had to be more careful with my lines.

I went in with charcoal for the hair, both generals and Conte charcoal pencils. Then I started working the skin with pastels starting from the ear...

It was a mixture of pastels and charcoal all through, I used Reeves pastel chalks to establish the base layer of my tones then go over that with colored pencils for texture and firmness...charcoal for some extra darkness and shadows

Summary

Status: Commissioned
Medium: Pastels, colored pencils and charcoal on paper
Size: 42x30 inches

Thanks for stopping by, you like?

PEACE ✌🏽