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Greetings to everyone in this community I'm so delighted to bring to you one of my wonderful art piece I just finished recently .
At first it wasn't really easy, I even I had to start thinking that I have reached my creative end point.perhaps I had to give my self some Courage and inspiration by looking into other peoples art on Instagram and other socials.
As you can see below I have to share the step by step process in creating this wonderful art of mine,stay tune as you enjoy the step by step process....

BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL 🖤

Art displayed on my drawing board

1st step(outline)

This step actually represents the blue print of the art , without this I don't think this art will be in existence .
I made use of a very lighter pencil when at this stage to avoid making my work look rough.

2nd step:

At this point I was confused on were to start so I had to start from the eye ball because it seems to be the most easiest part on the reference picture, while I was drawing the eye I used a cotton bud and charcoal powder to make I first layer blending on the pupil before before applying my charcoal pencil directly before blending it finally with a blending stump and then I made the highlight with a mono zero eraser.

3rd Step:

This step explains my blending process using my soft painting brush and charcoal powder. perhaps at this point I created two layer blending to make the skin tone pop out.
When I was done in making a good skin tone I had to apply my monozero into action to create a little bit of realism on the skin .
In conclusion I used a different technique in creating the hair region by using my charcoal pencil in making hair texture and blending it up with a soft painting brush which after that I also used a monozero eraser and skin tints pastel pencil to create highlights on the hair.

4th step:

As we can see vividly from the image it shows the second face which i used the same procedure I used in step 2&3 although when I made the necklace on the child's neck I didn't spend much time on it because it was done with just drawing it with a charcoal pencil and then making highlights on it using a monozero eraser.

5th step:

At this stage , I was almost done on the skin region before I could jump into making the necklace of the mother which was kind of difficult for me .
In conclusion I had to just ddo my thing by repeating the same procedure I used in the step where I made the childs necklace but something the different came in , while doing my highlights I had to make it not much visible because from the reference picture it wasn't that colourful and bright like the one on the child's neck.

6th step:(Final step)

At this point, I was done with the drawing perhaps I had to give it a last touch by creating interesting details on the skin by using a skin tints pastel pencil to make it visible because of the texture of the skin in the reference picture.and also , I used my soft eraser to create a highlights on the toe which I must say came out nice.
In conclusion,when I was already done with my last touches I wasn't that satisfied on the work because it looked plain to me so I had to think of something to make the drawing more interesting .
Stay tuned as I share my what I did on the background

7th step:(coloured background)

When the background was completed

When background was still in progress

Making this background was kind of fun for me because it wasn't that stress for me because I really enjoyed the process . Actually I used a cotton bud and poster colour to paint the ages of the image to avoid mix up with the charcoal and poster colour.
In conclusion I used a bigger painting brush to complete the larger background of the drawing and also I used a charcoal pencil and blending stump in creating the flowers on the background.
Indeed I must say I really enjoyed creating this art piece which comes with an inspiration of a strong black woman.

Final display of my art piece with a white background and colourful background

• Art on colourful background:
  

• Art on plain white background:

Tools:

• Needle point paper
• HB pencil
• Charcoal pencil/powder
• Skin tints pastel pencil
• Monozero eraser
• Soft painting brush
• Blending stump
• Cotton bud
• Poster colour

SIZE:

• 16x24

Duration:

• 200hours

Camera type:

• Redmi9a

watermark:

• I used a skin tints pastel pencil to sign out the image below at the left hand side.

I'm inviting @curator01 to go through my new art piece and as you do that may God bless you.