Hopelessness - pencil portrait drawing

A pencil portrait of a young woman. I was attracted to the reference photo I used because of her expression. She has sadness and hopelessness in her eyes. I wanted to see if I could capture that. I mainly used a 6B pencil because it allowed me to get the darkest tones and it took about half and hour to do.

Here's part of the process

I start with an outline and then add detail to the facial features and add dark tones.

I then add some finishing touches:

Hope you liked this drawing I will release a coloured version tomorrow
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