Birthday Gift For Fiance | Graphite pencil portrait.

Happy new year steemians and my fellow members of @worldofxpilar. I hope everyone is doing great!? And I hope you had a productive and fruitful weekend!? From what I'm seeing, this year will be more fruitful. cheers 🥂 to us. More life. I'm here again with another realistic graphite portrait. I want to present to you a realistic portrait drawing of my friend's Fiance, which was commissioned by her. Mary is her name. She's my childhood friend.

Materials

Paper	gloss paper
Size	10 X 12 inches
Pencils	Graphite pencil and powder
Eraser	Tombo mono zero and nataraj vynil eraser
Camera	Infinix mobile phone
Duration	approximately 15 hrs.
Location	Home

Here are the steps on how I did the portrait.
I drew my grid lines and made my sketch then started shading it gradually. Starting with his shirt, tie and phone before going to the head and features of the face. Now to achieve that realistic skin texture I had to use my mechanical pencil for little detailing, since the portrait is small and use my tombo mono zero eraser to erase lights, highlights and fine lines, making it real and accurate. everything went well.

Progress shot 1

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Progress shot 3

Progress shot 4

Finishing

Reference picture

I'm glad you went through my blog and post as well. thank you so much. appreciate that
Happy steeming. I'm coming back with my last biggest portrait of 2021 to drop this January, so just stay tuned. I pray we all stay alive to see it. I love this community. keep steeming 💙