Portrait sketch (graphite on sketchpad)

Hello wonderful people, i’m excited to share with you all a sketch of my beautiful friend who also happen to be an amazing artist. I made this sketch by midnight because I haven’t drawn in some days due to i was under the whether.

I loved the photograph and chose to work with it, I am not used to graphite sketches, but i did well with this one.

Tell me what you guys think of it.

PS i wanted a lot of pencil strokes.

Below are shots of my process.