THE PROVOST OF MY COLLEGE | Photorealism Graphite Portrait for his birthday anniversary.

I am so glad I could come back with an amazing post on the @worldofxpilar community page. May you always be in good health and protected by God Almighty.
How was last month!? I hope everyone is doing great!? And I hope you had a productive and fruitful month!? I'm here again with another photorealism realistic graphite portrait. I want to present to you a realistic portrait drawing of Dr Patrick Uko which was commissioned by some students in the department of political science in the Akwa Ibom State College Of Education, Afaha Nsit. Where I was schooling. Dr. Patrick has been one of the famous provost in my school as at his time. He brought a lot of development in terms of infrastructure and academic advancement. He was highly celebrated and won the heart of the college community due to his concern for the welfare of the people (staffs, non teaching staffs and students).
In the record of provosts who piloted the affairs of the school he was number one. After his tenure was over he now moved to Akwa Ibom State University where he was made a dean of one of the prestigious department.

I will say this is one of the work that brought me to limelight, for so many of my schoolmate didn't know I was an artist until I did this portrait.
Though it was a rushed project but I did well for ally artworks are representing me.

Materials

Paper	Pelican
Size	20 X 24 inches
Pencils	powder and graphite pencil
Eraser	Tombo mono zero and nataraj vynil eraser
Camera	Infinix mobile phone
Duration	Approximately 26 hrs.
Location	Studio

Here are the steps on how I did the portrait.
I drew my grid lines and made my sketch then started shading it gradually as usual. having a grid for sketch has been so good to artist because it gives you 100,% of accuracy when it come to the need for exact proportion. Starting with one side of the face which was the eyes, eyebrows and other features of the face. Then gradually move from left to right. this is how many artist draw to prevent smudging. Now to achieve that realistic skin texture and skin pores I had to sharpen my Graphite pencil for detailing and use my tombo mono zero eraser to erase lights, highlights, pinpoints, especially on the beard and eyebrows which had a lot of gray hair, making it real and accurate.

Progress shot 1

Progress shot 2

Progress shot 3

Progress shot 4

Progress shot 5

Finishing

I'm so happy you went through my blog and post as well. thank you so much
Happy steeming stay tuned. I'm coming back with more works, to drop this December, though I'm not feeling fine for the moment, so just stay tuned. I pray we all stay alive to see all that. I love you all and thanks once again.