"Prove yourself as the best artist for the week".

Compliments of the season and Happy New Year in advance. I am glad to participate in this week's contest titled "Prove yourself as the best artist for the week". I appreciate @dequeen for organising this contest. Today, I have painted the portrait of an African woman and shall be presenting the step-by-step process of my painting. I am sure you will like the painting.

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✅ Explain what you draw in your own words.

Today, I have painted a portrait of an African woman. I used a black acrylic colour to paint the woman. The black colour here means elegance (attractive). Similarly, I painted her wearing African attire.

✅ Share your drawing steps by step with us( Note this important point 👉🏽 write your username and date at any point on your drawing space before you start your drawing.)

Materials Used for Drawing

• Waste carton
• Pencil
• Eraser
• Paper cutter
• Acrylic colour
• Brush
• Ruler

Step 1
I began measuring the size of my carton. I used my ruler to measure a rectangular carton measuring 13 inches by 9 inches. After the measurement, I used my paper cutter to cut it out.

Step 2
I drew the portrait of a woman (side view). I began with her hair followed by her scarf. I then drew her forehead, nose, mouth, her jaw and neck. I also drew her eyebrows and eyelashes. I concluded this step by drawing her earrings and her shirt collar.

Step 3
In this step, I used white acrylic colour to colour the background of the drawing.

Step 4
Here, I coloured the hair on her head. I used black acrylic colour for that. I also used a little white acrylic colour on her hair

Step 5
I coloured the skin of the woman. I used more black colour and a little white colour. The blending of the black and white colour shows make-up on her face.

Step 6
Here, I coloured the scarf on the woman's head. I used white colour, yellow colour, red colour, and blue colour. The colour combination shows that she is putting on African attire

Step 7
I applied the same colour as found in step 6 to colour the shirt worn by the woman.

Step 8
I used white acrylic colour to draw the earrings on her ear.

Step 9
Here, I used white and red acrylic colours to coloured her lips

Step 10
I used black acrylic colour to shade her eyelashes and eyebrows.

✅ How long did take to complete your drawing and how do you feel about it.

This painting took me three (3) hours to have it completed. I became very happy when I finished the entire work and also found out that the work was beautiful.

My Selfie

Conclusion
Friends this is my participation for the week. I appreciate you all for your support. I hereby invite @zisha-hafiz, @genoar, @devi2021 and #imranhassan to also participate.

10 % beneficiary to the community @hive-126193

Cc
@dequeen

Thank You All