Drawing a Portrait of "NELSON MANDELA"

Hello friends of this great Steemians community, today I want to share with you a portrait that I made of a very influential character in his country, it is the one who was alive Nelson Mandela, who was president of the Republic of South Africa in the years 1999 to 1994 This man was in prison for 27 years from 1963 until 1990, he was a fighter for equality in his country.

Here a portrait in honor of this man.
I hope you like it

DRAWING PROCESS.

I start making the sketch with a 2B pencil, I recommend it because it is soft and easy to erase, I also made the lines of the expressions so that it would be easier for me to shade and blur.

Next, with an HB pencil, I shaded the area of ​​the eyes and with a 3B pencil filled the right eye, with a small brush, I diffused the graphite a bit, with a 3B pencil I darkened the eyelid, I did the same area of ​​the left eye.

In this part, blur the lower part of the face with a brush leaving some white parts to simulate the reflection of light, with the 3B pencil I darkened some areas such as facial expressions of the nose and cheeks.

I kept spreading the graphite all over my face, darkening the wrinkles on my forehead with a 6B pencil, and with a 3B I darkened some parts of the hair, not all because he had gray hair

Here in this part with a cotton blemish the hair and with an eraser you take out lights so that it will be seen with the gray appearance of your hair.

Now to finish with a pencil 8B fill the suit to blend with a cotton.

FINAL SCORE.

"I was not born hungry to be free, I was born free, free in any sense that I can understand."

Nelson Mandela

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