THE CHARMING SMILE | done with charcoal

Hello hivers! Happy new week. I pray for peace to the whole world. How was the week. Today is monday here. I wish you a terrific new week as I share my post with you. My fellow members of Hive. I am here again to share my recent realistic charcoal pencil portrait of my recent piece I did for my client who decided to surprise her friend
The portrait was commissioned by my friend Teejay. Teejay is my good friend.

Materials

Paper	Needle point paper
Size	12/15 inches
Pencils	Charcoal pencil and charcoal dust
Eraser	Tombo mono zero and nataraj vynil eraser
Camera	infinix mobile phone
Duration	Approximately 21 hours
Location	Home

Here are the steps on how I did the portrait.

I drew my grid lines and made my sketch then started shading it gradually. Sometimes I usually start some of my portraits from the hair, but in his case I started with the clothe and the hair. Then I got to the face and started working on the features of the face gradually as usual. This is to helps me work upwards and from left to right before moving down to the neck and necklace Though I used a piece of paper to place my hands. I do this to avoid smudging the part I may have already worked on. I really took my time to include everything in detail even though I was not accurate exactly the way it is in the reference. Making sure nothing was left out since I want you to really appreciate a good work. And I know myself. I know I'm always committed to excellence regardless of who it may be.

This time it was for my friend Teejay. He's one of the client who give me real time to do my work well. I appreciate him for that.

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Finishing

Framed

Reference

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