I worked on this for several hours today. The hair still isn't finished.

Getting close.

Here's todays progress on Hannah, still not finished.

I haven't worked on this for about a week but here's tonights progress.

Here's todays progress on Hannah, still a long ways to go.

I started working on the background today.

I made a little more progress on Hannah before calling it a day. I can see that I need to tweak her eyes some, I'll do that next and then start on the background.

I'm using a sanded surface paper for this portrait, it's literally like a piece of sandpaper. For this step I've used a cream colored pencil to blend the under painting and lock it into the sanded surface. As you can see I've lost many of my darks by doing this and will have to re-establish them in the next step.