Portrait

While working on an in-class drawing exercise we were asked to draw portraits of our classmates. I used a Venus drawing pencil # 2H to help sketch the outline of Arianel my classmates face then I used Berol Charcoal pencil, soft  to fill in what I sketched. I must say this was the first portrait I ever drew. While it doesn’t look anything like her it was a pretty good likeness for an amateur. The difficulties I came across were timing because while I was trying to draw her portrait she was trying to draw mine so we both spent time looking at the face and then trying to draw what we saw. By the time we were done we got into a great rhythm of give and take. Another thing I had trouble with was drawing the hair I think if I had more time and practice I would be able to do a better job.