Pencil portrait of an orphan girl from Myanmar

Graphite pencil drawing of an orphan girl from Myanmar (Burma) on A4 Daler Rowney Airbrush Bristol board.

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

The reference that I used, of this lovely girl, was photographed  by Dietmar Temps at a small monastery and monastic school in Mawlamyine and I thank him for giving his photograph, www.flickr.com/photos/deepblue… a  CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 licence permitting derivative works.

For this drawing I chose to lighten the contrast on the hair somewhat so that the waves and curls were more apparent and I also attempted to remove the extremely narrow depth of focus apparent in the original.

Here is a drawing process for this drawing:

I have previously made several other drawings from Dietmar Temps's lovely photographs: