Pencil portrait of My

Graphite pencil portrait of My on A4 Daler Rowney Airbrush Bristol board.

Pencils: Various Mars Lumograph (6H to 8B), Faber Castell 9000 (6B to 8B), mechanical pencils 0.3mm/2B, 0.5mm/4B.
Blending: Blending stumps from Boldmere and Royal Langnickel, cotton buds and paper tissues.
Erasing: WH Smith kneadable eraser, Jakar battery eraser, Tombow Mono Zero Ultra-fine eraser. 

I thank SofiesGals for the permission to draw from the photo My 038.  This photo of My is just one of a host of photos of lovely girls in SofiesGals's gallery and it was therefore very difficult to choose one to from which to draw. This photo has now been withdrawn from DeviantArt but I have found it elsewhere on the Internet: 40.media.tumblr.com/7c4f5d5f10…

I chose this one over others that I also considered because it would pose me certain challenges, which I hoped that I could overcome.  These challenges were the rather low contrast of this back-lit photo resulting in unusual lighting on her face, the free hair style and the fabric of the T-shirt.  Before drawing from the photo I adjusted it in GIMP to increase the contrast, which better showed the unusual lighting on her face (presumably reflected from both sides).  The photo was also relatively low resolution, which also posed some problems of deciphering the image.  Although very far from perfect I am not disappointed with this drawing.

Some of my other pencil portraits