A Pencil Portrait of the Actress Halle Berry

In August last year, I made my first portrait of Halle Berry and back then I was still learning how to blend. At some point I made the mistake of erasing certain parts of the sketch and afterwards I couldn't mount the pencil properly on the sketch without ruining it. This was what the sketch resolved to eventually and I never posted it.....

Last week, I ran out of ideas on what to sketch and spotted this never posted Picture of Halle Berry and I felt like recreating but this time without blending and no eraser was involved.

Using my 10B Bianyo in making the sketch, I soon discovered that the darker edges required more attention and in no time, I lost a complete mimic of the photo but still managed to arrive at a good facial imitation. I didn't finish up on the right part of the hair because I felt it might ruin the sketch in some way as the contours were quite unusual.......I'd like to know your views on this though, feel free to leave your comments below..

These are the Outlines....

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