All in one contest -W39 —Drawing

Hello people,
I hope y'all are doing fine.
So I made a pencil of a girl and this is where I drew the curtains.

•	Steps

I started with a sketch I the head, her hair is scattered like you've seen in the final results, so it wouldn't have been safe to ad the hair while starting to avoid mistakes.

After the head, I sketched down to the chest, adding the shoulder and the clothing. Also, I did some detailed sketches on the clothing.

Here, I drew vertical and horizontal lines to help me with the facial features placement.
Without this, the face might not get the resemblance of the reference Image.
After that, I sketched out the features. The eyes, nose, mouth, and eyebrows. Using the guiding lines.

After getting the sketch of the facial features right, I extended the sketch of the body down to her waist which shows her holding a ball.

Here, this is a complete shading of the face . This took a lot of my time, from cross-hatching to blending, cleaning and shading again just to get deeper and lighter areas.

At the end , I was able to achieve a satisfactory look, just like the reference Image.

Here, I extended the shading around the area where she's seated, inside a car. I also did some light shading of the clothing.

Here , I sketched and shaded the hair, scattered like that if the reference Image.
Then I wrote my username.

Thanks for reading through....
US-ANDREW 😎
I'll lie to invite @pandora2010 @sadaf02 and @emma-uttermost to join the contest.
Here's the Link