Hello steemains, today I brought a new drawing of my art series - Celebrities/Famous.

This is my first time of joining the contest proposed by Hive account@juliakponsford which has the theme "express yourself"

This drawing (portrait of Rihanna), I find interesting to do. She's a song writer & a singer whom I admire so much largely because of her style of music. Also I'm always passionate about drawing with pen because it requires devotion of time, concentration and patience.

Mediums

Ball point pen
Cardboard paper
Pencil and eraser

Development process

The drawing was started by sketching out the figure of my model with pencil. When done, I examined it carefully to make some adjustments and correct any error discovered. Thereafter, I used pen (blue) to overlay on the pencil.

After the sketching, I started working on the hair. I shaded slightly at first, then worked over it again with darker tones and blocked in to build my desired forms.

Thereafter, I worked on her face. I started from her forehead to build my forms, then I moved down to her eyes, nose, cheek and mouth. More precious time was spent on her eyes in order to make them look real as much as I could.

After am done with the face, I moved over to the body (chest and shoulder). Firstly, I worked on her white shirt before moving to her shoulder and upper arms.

Upon completion of the whole process, I crosschecked the work to be certain no area was left undone. The work took me about 61 hours to complete within the space of two weeks.

Thank you for your time...
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