Pencil portrait of Alisa

Graphite pencil drawing of Alisa on A4 Daler Rowney Airbrush Bristol board.

Pencils: Mars Lumograph (4B, HB, 5H), Masters B, Faber Castell 9000 (6B, 8B), mechanical pencils 0.3mm/2B, 0.5mm/4B with Pentel Ain Stein leads.
Indentation:  Royal Langnickel Embossing tools.
Blending: Blending stump from Royal Langnickel, Cotton buds and paper tissues.
Erasing: WH Smith kneadable eraser, Tombow Mono Zero Ultra-fine eraser and Jakar battery electric eraser.
Photo adjustment using GIMP: Removal of barrel distortion; Cropping to A4 ratio and removal of perspective distortion; Cropping unfinished edges of drawing; Adjustment of histogram.

The reference that I used for this drawing was the lovely photo, Alisa . , by anarud.deviantart.com/ to whom I give my thanks for allowing me to make this drawing. 

It was a very challenging drawing because of all that unruly blonde hair!

A 'Drawing Process' for this portrait can be seen here: .

Alisa is the sister of Angelika .  Some other of my recent drawings