Woman C Wednesday: Portrait drawing.

Hello Hivians! Hello everyone and hello OCA community! I’m Emmanuel and I am an artist who’s main aim is to perfect the art of photo realism. It’s my first time here on this community and I want to show you a drawing of mine that I did, it’s a requested portrait that I did for someone .
I have used pencils ( 2b, 4b) graphite and charcoal on alabaster paper to do this drawing.

Here is my progress of this drawing

Spent a lot of time drawing the hair since it was braids.

Here is my drawing vs the reference photo

Thank you!