Pencil portrait of a Tanzanian girl

Graphite pencil drawing of a Tanzanian girl on A4 Daler Rowney Airbrush Bristol board.

Pencils: Mars Lumograph (6H, 2H, F), Faber Castell 9000 (6B, 8B), W H Smith Woodless 9B, mechanical pencils 0.3mm/2B, 0.5mm/4B with Pentel with Ain Stein leads.
Blending: Blending stump from Royal Langnickel, Cotton buds and paper tissues.
Erasing: WH Smith kneadable eraser, Blu-Tack and Tombow Mono Zero Ultra-fine 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.

A portrait of a beautiful girl in a primary school in a village near Nansio in Ukerewe, Lake Victoria, Tanzania. Ukerewe is the largest island in Lake Victoria and also the largest inland island in Africa.  The photograph that I used as reference was Tanzania, girl in primary school which was taken by Dietmar Temps who very kindly has made it available for derivative works through a Creative Commons licence CC BY-NC-NC SA.

Here are two more of my drawings from Dietmar Temps's photos