Beauty WIP

Ok, here is the update on my progress. I still need to learn how and more practice working in the shadows to keep it smooth just like when you use the harder pencils.  The softer graphite throws out spikes of graphite and give you little dots and the impurities in the paper pop right out.  I guess I could eliminate all of that if I would just use charcoal the next time.  Plus other advantage to charcoal is I won't get the graphite shine.
As you can see I decided to add in a darker background and am in process of adding the dark graphite - I have several more layers to add and then I will pull it out using a paint brush - I did that on the shadow behind her head, burnished it and that tends to take out all the white spots. I also was hoping that if I brushed it out then I wouldn't get a big deal graphite shine.
I also added color to her face but it really isn't showing up so much, so might change up the color to a more orange yellow and see if I can get a little bit more color in the cheek areas and then will also use that on the shoulder that is closest to us.  Trick is to be sure you have a SHARP pencil and a light pressure and touch.
That will leave me with the hair and guess the key here is to not overwork it.  So I'm going to start with the 2B pencil,  laying in the graphite first, then will have to be really careful with the color pencil.  Might try it off paper and test adding the color pencil first and then putting the graphite on top of it, that should eliminate the smear factor.  If I don't get too heavy of a waxy layer on the paper the graphite should hold.  Maybe in the future I should only do bald people eh??
Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend.  TGIF!!!