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Pencil portrait of 'Eyes of Varanasi' on A4 Daler Rowney Airbrush Bristol board. Varanasi is regarded as the spiritual capital of India.

I have made an animation of the drawing process and uploaded it here:

Pencils: Mars Lumograph (2H, HB, 3B), Faber Castell 9000 (6B and 8B) , Mitsubishi Hi-Uni 10B, mechanical pencils 0.2 mm/2B, 0.3 mm/2B, 0.5 mm/4B with Ain Stein leads.
Blending: Blending stump by Boldmere and paper tissues.
Erasing: W H Smith kneadable eraser, Tombow Mono Zero Ultra-fine eraser, Jakar battery eraser.

Photography of drawing: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS10 compact camera, tripod and easel. A dark cloth was used behind the camera to eliminate reflection from the graphite shine.

Photo adjustment of the photo of the drawing so that it closely resembles the drawing itself using GIMP: Removal of barrel distortion; Cropping to A4 ratio and removal of perspective distortion; Cropping unfinished edges of drawing; Adjustment of histogram.

My sincere thanks go to Réhahn Photography for permission to use his photo of this girl, www.facebook.com/Rehahn.Photog… my reference for this drawing. His photo is Copyright Réhahn Photography.

The hair in this drawing is probably the most complex that I have attempted to draw to date.

Should I be lucky enough to obtain many favourites on this drawing, I regret that I may not be able to thank personally for each of them, so please accept this general thanks instead. I will always, however, reply to comments.

Description

Pencil portrait of 'Eyes of Varanasi' on A4 Daler Rowney Airbrush Bristol board. Varanasi is regarded as the spiritual capital of India.

I have made an animation of the drawing process and uploaded it here:

Pencils: Mars Lumograph (2H, HB, 3B), Faber Castell 9000 (6B and 8B) , Mitsubishi Hi-Uni 10B, mechanical pencils 0.2 mm/2B, 0.3 mm/2B, 0.5 mm/4B with Ain Stein leads.
Blending: Blending stump by Boldmere and paper tissues.
Erasing: W H Smith kneadable eraser, Tombow Mono Zero Ultra-fine eraser, Jakar battery eraser.

Photography of drawing: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS10 compact camera, tripod and easel. A dark cloth was used behind the camera to eliminate reflection from the graphite shine.

Photo adjustment of the photo of the drawing so that it closely resembles the drawing itself using GIMP: Removal of barrel distortion; Cropping to A4 ratio and removal of perspective distortion; Cropping unfinished edges of drawing; Adjustment of histogram.

My sincere thanks go to Réhahn Photography for permission to use his photo of this girl, www.facebook.com/Rehahn.Photog… my reference for this drawing. His photo is Copyright Réhahn Photography.

The hair in this drawing is probably the most complex that I have attempted to draw to date.

Should I be lucky enough to obtain many favourites on this drawing, I regret that I may not be able to thank personally for each of them, so please accept this general thanks instead. I will always, however, reply to comments.