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

I have made an animation of the drawing process. Click this thumbnail to view it:

Pencils: Mars Lumograph (2H, F, B, 2B, 4B), Faber Castell 9000 (6B and 8B), mechanical pencils 0.2 mm/2B, 0.3 mm/2B, 0.5 mm/4B with Ain Stein leads. 6B Faber Castell 9000 used to prepare graphite powder applied with a small make-up brush.

Blending: Cotton buds, blending stump by Boldmere and paper tissues.

Erasing: W H Smith kneadable eraser, Tombow Mono Zero Ultra-fine eraser, Jakar battery eraser.

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 was was well on the way to completing this drawing when I removed the paper with which I had protected my drawing overnight and found that it had stuck to the drawing! The offending material was a small drop of honey. I do my drawing on the dining table and I must have placed my cover sheet on my place mat onto which I had dripped honey from my crumpet of the day before! I blotted the honey off with a tissue, then repeatedly breathed on the paper and blotted again until the residue could be seen no more. Unfortunately a few days later, having forgotten about the incident, I blended over the area producing a dark blotch. It could not be lightened with a kneadable eraser, so I had to resort to complete removal of all graphite using a repeatedly cleaned electric eraser. I then had to build up the required tone using very fine pointillism as I cold not risk blending there again!

Should I be lucky enough to obtain many favourites on this drawing in the first few days after posting it, I regret that I may not be able to thank personally for each of them, so please accept this general thanks instead. I will always, however, reply to comments.

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