drawing from life, portrait

This one was really awesome. It went really well in the making, I just took out an old photo and drew from that. However, drawing from a photo makes it look like a photo, at least to me. Plus, I was drawing sitting down, with my paper on the table instead of flat in front of me standing up, so when I looked at it from there it was fine, but straight on, it looks vertically squashed a bit. Lesson learned.

Graphite, 18×24 cropped to about 8×8.