Yan Pei Ming - Mao Zedong's Portrait

<-Yan Pei-Ming, Portrait of Mao, 1999

 Using graphite, I made a continuous line before using tones and shades on the portrait. I used landscape instead of portrait because I only wanted to draw the upper half of Mao Zedong's portrait and also fill up the paper. The graphite was hard to use because the line was quite thick and difficult to make a portrait with it. I didn't put much effort on the eyes because it wasn't the main focus, this study was to be able to recreate the portrait's outline with a continuous line in a short time.