I have started a portrait in pencils inspired by El Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), in which I hope to achieve lots of detail and light and dark areas for the face.  The hair surrounding the face I plan on making quite dark and bold, in order to focus attention on the face and eyes.

I will post another photo of this drawing once I have finished (or nearly finished!) it.

Pencils used: HB, 4B, 5B, 8B.