Portrait in Pencil

I promised my dear friend Friday that I would do a portrait of him, and since I didn't have the internet working last night I thought I'd make a start. I haven't done portraits before at all and I've never been particularly wonderful at drawing. But there is a first time for everything..... this is what I came up with.

Reference Photo

Marking out the key features

Starting to add some detail - the eyes were a bit too close together so this needed some adjusting

Building up the levels of shading

The finished product!!!

I'm really happy with how this turned out! I just hope he likes it - I'll find out in a couple of weeks when I send it down to him.