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Just what the title says

Had quite some difficulty for the shading/rendering. Some tutorial videos said about drawing a portrait "you should choose a well lit photograph from one light source for reference, where you can distinguish the light from the dark". But I really wanted to draw this picture and tried a couple of times and failed miserably. It's one of the first webcam picture I got from my girlfriend nine years ago and it is really really low resolution...
After some hours of colouring, erasing, recolouring it finally took shape and I realised why it took me so long to figure out the shading was the lighting came from 3 directions  From her right the blue light from the window, the light from the computer screen below/front and the yellow/orange light from the lamp on her left.

It's probably not perfect and far from photorealistic, but the first coloured pencil portrait I'm satisfied!

A4 canson paper 224gsm, pencil for the sketching, 36 polychromos pencil coulours

Description
Just what the title says

Had quite some difficulty for the shading/rendering. Some tutorial videos said about drawing a portrait "you should choose a well lit photograph from one light source for reference, where you can distinguish the light from the dark". But I really wanted to draw this picture and tried a couple of times and failed miserably. It's one of the first webcam picture I got from my girlfriend nine years ago and it is really really low resolution...
After some hours of colouring, erasing, recolouring it finally took shape and I realised why it took me so long to figure out the shading was the lighting came from 3 directions  From her right the blue light from the window, the light from the computer screen below/front and the yellow/orange light from the lamp on her left.

It's probably not perfect and far from photorealistic, but the first coloured pencil portrait I'm satisfied!

A4 canson paper 224gsm, pencil for the sketching, 36 polychromos pencil coulours