MY QUEEN.

One of the greatest and nicest person I have known in my life.
A Grandmother and more.
This old woman is a true definition of what we call SWEET MOTHER!
Even at old age, my grandma's beauty keeps radiating like the rays of the sun.
This woman is the reason I'm still alive today. My only wish for her now is LONG LIFE With GOOD HEALTH so that she'll reap what she sowed in my life!
My grandma is a beautiful woman with a heart of gold.
I Love my grandma more than any other person in the world.
Grandma is very supportive in my art career that is why she's my favorite model when I want to draw hyper realistic portrait of an old person.
She's got a pet name for me, the name is "idung imagha uko" though it's in my native dialect but it's interpreted as "The world doesn't love bravery"
Here is one of my portraits of her I did to commensurate her birthday anniversary.
Pls stop by and wish my grandma LONG LIFE AND GOOD HEALTH.

Materials

Paper	pelican paper
Size	16 X 20 inches
Pencils	Graphite pencil and powder
Eraser	Tombo mono zero
Camera	Infinix mobile phone
Duration	214hrs
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 shading from the eye ball, eyes lashes, and other of its features.

Progress 1
Since it was my work I didn't rush it through. I did it very slow. Great things takes time. Real time. I continue From the nose. Doing everything according to the reference picture. Observing the skin pores on the nose. Shaded the right cheek and the upper lips.

Progress 2
I shaded chin the left cheek which had the highest depth of dark value.

Progress 3
Got down to the lower lips finished it and detailed the whole face. Making look like a real photo, popping out of the paper.

Progress 4
I went down to her neck and chest which was open and I could see skin texture which came with wrinkles and pores. I went up and started the headgear.

Progress 5
Then I drew almost half of the headgear.

Progress 6
About now I was on 76% of the headgear.

Progress 7
Finished the headgear and went ahead to do the clothing, I did absolutely everything in detail. It really took my time but it was worth it. I now used my tombo mono zero eraser to bring out strong highlights in the necessary places to give that realistic contrast of how a real photo should look like. I finished it, corrected a few errors and framed it

Finishing

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Happy steeming 👍