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Pencil Crosshatch Portrait Behind Black-Framed Glasses
A monochrome graphite sketch: updo, black-framed glasses, skin tones built up layer by layer from fine lines and crosshatching.
✍️ Crosshatching sets the grain of a sketch: the denser the lines, the deeper the tone, and three cast shadows (under the frames, under the nose, along the jawline) anchor the face's sense of volume. Leaving the background blank saves half the work.
📋 Prompt Midjourney Parameter Style
Plain light paper fills the background, so all attention lands on the pencil work of the head, neck and upper shoulder. It is a monochrome graphite drawing of a woman wearing black-rimmed glasses, her hair in an updo with soft strands falling around her face. Fine line shading and cross hatching build tone, texture and gradients of light across her skin and features, with careful shadow rendering beneath the glasses frames, the nose and the jawline. --ar 7:8 --raw --v 8.2
