• Graphite (HB) pencil on used printer paper

• Subject: Joyce Carol Oates

• Source: photo from a book cover

• Drawn on August 4th

This is my second portrait on that day (to compensate for the fact that I missed a few days, I tried to do more than one drawing on others).

One of my main struggles this year, you will notice, is hair. Hair is time consuming to do, and I find it hard. And since my focus will be mostly on faces and expressions, for some portraits the hair is only sketched out. Maybe I make next year's challenge about hair :)