Charcoal on paper

Here is another charcoal portrait of the same girl from my last post. I am pretty much satisfied with it, and this is the only work I am content with this last week.

The procedure:

 I first covered the paper with vine charcoal powder which was then brushed downward off the paper. Next I massed in the darks in just a slight shade darker than the background, and the fun part was when I began to bring out the light parts of the face using my kneaded eraser! For the highlights though I cheated a bit and used a white pastel - wish I could do that with my eraser!