Pencil portrait of a girl from Togo

Graphite pencil drawing of a girl from Lomé, Togo on A4 Daler Rowney Airbrush Bristol board.

Pencils: Various Mars Lumograph (6H to 8B),  Koh-i-noor  woodless Progresso (HB to 8B), Faber Castell 9000 8B, mechanical pencil 0.3mm/2B, 0.5mm/4B.
Blending: Blending stumps from Boldmere and Royal Langnickel, cotton buds and paper tissues.
Erasing: WH Smith kneadable eraser, Jakar battery eraser, Faber Castell Perfection eraser pencil. 

My sincere thanks go to Dietmar Temps  on Flickr for making his lovely photo available for derivative works via a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 licence.  The link to his photo is Girl in Lomé, Togo .

As with my previous drawing, of Aminanta, I had some difficulty with the dark skin shading,  having to add more graphite on two occasions after I had thought that I had finished. The hair was nowhere near as difficult as I thought it might have been.

Edited 29 September 2014:  Photo changed for a one having better definition.

Some more of my pencil portraits