Self Portrait

I drew a side profile self portrait. In this drawing I used a 2H pencil to outline everything, I also used a 2B, 4B, and a 6B to darken my face and blend the shadows better. Different techniques I used are outlining my face, drawing the individual pencil strokes, and blending the pencil strokes together. I used value in my drawing. To add interest I picked an image that would be harder to draw and showed more range on the value scale. the completed work makes me feel proud because I really feel like I pushed my skills and tried something new. By creating this work I learned that it is a lot harder to do a whole project in pencil. In the future I want to use charcoal so it doesn't look like it does now because I want the streaks on the paper to be gone.