...EDIT...
Added a subtle (???) watermark to the image. Apparently people like to claim this as their own. Found a lot of my work on russian and scandinavian websites lately.... 
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I know what you're thinking...
'Huh? What is this? I don't know this character?!?!'Hmm well, that's because it's a character I made up.
Yes,
self made! What you see is a close up of a small part of the drawing...
This is one of my characters, called
Nora.
She was born from the sky. A falling star who came down to earth to guide those who need help.
Nora means '
Light' in greek, or '
Guiding star'.
I designed her some years ago, but never dared to draw a realistic portrait of her. And now I did, go me!
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I'm so proud of this one.
The form of her face is based upon an image of the beautiful *
faestock , which can be seen
here.
Compare it to the ref, and you'll see I changed a lot of her facial features, such as her nose, eyes, eyebrows, eyelashes, neck, ear...
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So... what exactly did I made up?
Basically everything, lol.
I'm most proud of the ear, because it looks pretty realistic.
I cut off half of the picture, even though it looked pretty good. But why?
For now I just don't think it would fit. I like this head shot. That's it for now, lol. More OC's coming soon...
Stuff I used:
4H, 2H, H, HB, B, 2B & 3B mechanical pencils
erasers... lots and lots of erasers...
my usual sketchbook paper, A4 size
reference image
imagination lol yayTime spent: just a few days
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Wow.
My mind was blown.
And then I pulled it back together to stare in awe of this amazing drawing. I'm not such a great artist myself, so my word may not carry much weight, but I wanted you to know that another person out in the universe is in love with your talent.
Along with the current 4,652 people who had favorited it as of now.
Good job!