I did this portrait last night after viewing an instagram story of my friend Diana, I really liked her waving hair so it inspired me to make this drawing 😁, I had a lot of trouble achieving her skin tone right with all the shadows and highlights and frankly I didn't make it look exactly as I wanted but overall I guess the illustration doesn't look that bad, besides it was a really nice practice and experiment 😸
I showed the portrait to my friend this morning and she liked it 😁.
Technical Info:
Traditional Media on Small A5 Sketchbook.
Created with Mechanical Pencil, Inkpen, and Color Markers and Color Pencils
Took me around 2 to 3 hours perhaps
Scan image full resolution 1500x1978px 72dpi
An early sketch in pencil
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Beautiful portrait!