This is how all my Copic portraits start out. I draw a quick pencil portrait and then work over it with a fineliner before erasing the pencil. This time I liked my pencil sketch of Alena so much I decided to leave it as it is and not move on to pen and Copic markers.
I drew Alena with a Blackwing 602 pencil in a Midori Cotton sketchbook.
drawing faces 