Portrait Sketch : Wink

Heather is a friend of mine, a student at NYU. I have just used mostly a charcoal pencil for this sketch, and did not do much smudging with my fingers like usual but tried to chisel the form with the pencil strokes instead. I began by quickly establishing the general solid form of the head, then i began inserting eyes into the eye sicket and other features onto the form as if i was modelling in clay. I thought of each mark as if I am attaching or detaching pieces of clay. This was a fun sitting. Heather did a great job holding that wink;)