Portrait as a gift

Hi all! This is my next work, a portrait as a gift for my beautiful friend and colleague. The portrait is drawn on thick paper, A3 format, with watercolor pencils By photo. The job took 3 days, 4-5 hours. Such a large amount of time was needed because in order to achieve certain colors and shades, a large overlay of colors of different pencils is needed, and so that there are no gaps and a more uniform color, it was necessary to go through almost the entire canvas with a white mixer and mix the colors. The mixer is a white pencil that comes with the kit. This work is voluminous and always takes a lot of time. By the way, the gift was, as always, unexpected and successful, and the occasion was a birthday! Girlfriend is delighted. I hope you like my work too.