Female pencil portrait-all done-showing the process step by step

Hello there, so i am finally done with that female pencil pencil portrait that i was working on.
i was trying to make this drawing a little bit more darker than i usually do, and i think it turned out ok.

i am sharing this portrait in two different posts, so if you have missed the previous part you can always check that from my blog.

Final portrait:

in my last update i showed you that i was only done with the eyes and the lips and a very little on the nose,
then i started working on the shading of the whole face including the nose at the same time.
in some point i thought i should make this portrait more smooth(wasn't a good idea) and i tried to do so, but who knew if i push too much with darker pencil on such normal art paper it would be then hard to remove?
so when i made some mistakes around the nose and the chick bones i tried to erase them and it led to a more shitty result that i didn't like.

so yeah, it became harder at the end but i am happy with what i did with the hair.
i have always found hair to be the most difficult part but i think i did a good job on this hair.
fyi, i did not follow the reference photo completely to draw the hair.

now i will share the rest of the process shots that i did later:

this is the far i had done before,

and then i did these:

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