portrait drawing from graphite to charcoal practice

good afternoon my dear steemit friends, it is already dark in Prague and the weather seems to be very cold outside so i though that it would be a good idea to work on a new post in steemit, especially after a long and tough week at work.

this time i will show you how i managed to modify a sketch of a character i have done many weeks ago with graphite pencil by applying a layers of charcoal on top of it so the character changed dramatically, those layers basically are what i call the shading layers where i basically generate highlights and the shadow on top of the sketch,

• so first lets take a look at the original sketch i have made earlier :

• as you can see it is a basic graphite sketch with no lights or shadows in it, now i will start to add charcoal layer by using a hard charcoal pen, the first attempt looked like this :

• you can see some changes on the overlook of the character, the eyes start to look bigger and you can see some dark shadows and the rim light on the character right side, so i continued the process by adding another layer of charcoal :

• now you can notice the deep rich black shadows on the character's left side, also the highlights on the nose and cheeks, however the hair is not complete yet, so i continued to apply and adjust as follow:

i have smoothed the edges and blend them which creates a settle nice midtones, i also worked on the hair so it is almost finished, then i decided to take it further and do some tweaking to see what i will come up with and i was not disappointed at all :

So guys as always let me know what do you think about the whole process i have made and if there is any thing to be improved down-below in the comments section, also let me thank @qurator once again for the latest design competition and congratulate the winners @aaronleang and @selected, have a nice evening for the cold city of Prague and do not forget to upvote and resteem ;-)