Graphite pencil portrait of Lulu on A4 Daler Rowney Airbrush Bristol board.
Pencils: Mars Lumograph (4H, HB, 3B, 5B), Faber Castell 9000 (6B and 8B) , Mitsubishi Hi-Uni 10B, mechanical pencils 0.2 mm/2B, 0.3 mm/2B, 0.5 mm/4B with Ain Stein leads.
Indentation: Royal Langnickel embossing tools
Blending: Blending stump by Boldmere and paper tissues. Erasing: W H Smith kneadable eraser, Tombow Mono Zero Ultra-fine eraser, Jakar battery eraser.
Graphite and eraser dust removal: UN Lens Blower Brush.
Photography of drawing: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS10 compact camera, tripod and easel. A dark cloth was used behind the camera to eliminate reflection from the graphite shine.
Photo adjustment of the photo of the drawing so that it closely resembles the drawing itself using GIMP: Removal of barrel distortion; Cropping to A4 ratio and removal of perspective distortion; Cropping unfinished edges of drawing; Adjustment of histogram. I give my thanks to Marie Baersch, the photographer (www.mariebaersch.com/) for kindly giving me her permission to make this drawing and post it on the Internet. I used her lovely photo of the model, Lulu Stone, as my reference (divinebeauties.tumblr.com/imag…).
It is three months since my previous drawing. I had lost all interest in drawing until I saw the photo that I used as my reference here. I realised that the hair would stretch my abilities to the limit and that I would have to simplify the detail in order to make my drawing. I am not fully satisfied with this drawing, but doubt that I could appreciably improve it with any more tweaking, so here it is.
I have made an animation of my drawing process photos: fav.me/ddkdz6q
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