THE LOVELY COUPLE || A birthday portrait

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 your week? I hope everyone is doing great!? And I hope you had a productive and fruitful week? I'm here again with another photorealism realistic charcoal and Graphite portrait. I want to present to you a realistic portrait drawing of my newest personal collection piece that I did for Imaobong Jones. Miss. Imaobong Jones is my Facebook friend who is fond of talking about his Boss and his lovely wife. I decided to ask her to make a portrait for them instead of just singing empty praises on Facebook and other social media platforms. She she did so by paying for the framing of the free portrait.
I will say this is one of the work that brought me to popularity among my friends.
Though it was a rushed project but I did well, for all my artworks are representing me.
Please stay tuned. I'm working on something new.

Materials

Paper	FBB paper
Size	20 X 24 inches
Pencils	Charcoal and Graphite pencil
Eraser	Tombo mono zero and nataraj vynil eraser
Camera	Infinix mobile phone
Duration	Approximately 36 hrs.
Location	Home

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 charcoal pencil for detailing and use my tombo mono zero eraser to erase lights, highlights, pinpoints, making it real and accurate.

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Finishing

Framed

Selfie with the finishing

Selfie with the framed job

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 Ember months season, 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.