Morning

It is finished!
It's been a while since I finished a realism portrait...3 months to be precisely all the other stuff was surrealism and experimenting. glad to do some realism only again.

This time I tried to play around with the focus. That's why I tried to add more skin texture. (I've changed the skin like 5 or 6 times, but I'll just keep it like this) and left side blurry
The bad thing is, that I suck at drawing things blurry, it's so hard
Now it looks like I was lazy to draw the left part of the hair

I probably have mentioned this a billion time, but I hate drawing hair. This time it was even harder because her hair is so messy. It's not straight nor curly so there was not some kind of pattern which I could repeat It felt like doing a puzzle

Tools:
-B, 3B, 6B, 8B pencils
-mechanical pencil 2B
-A4 Paper
-diffrent erasers

reference: [link] The model is kristine
The number one reason to pick this reference was the lightning, which was quiet a daunting task. I'm still not sure about it (especially the forehead) it looks out of place
WIP:[link]
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Update: I changed the lightning on her head and added a bit more contrast to the bottom part of the hair. I like it a bit more now