Purity

It's been a while since my last deviation, though I wasn't all that inactive (maybe I'll upload the drawings I finished in the meantime).
I'm really glad I found this amazing reference photo of Antonia Thomas (Alisha of Misfits), it's both beautiful and emotive, I wanted to draw it for months so I finally had some time to do so
Again I have to say that the original looks way better, I had to adjust brightness and contrast a bit and now the face looks brighter than it actually is... And don't take this as if I just want to blame the scanner for my mistakes, I've already darkened the drawing three times and it still looks like this when scanned

Hope you like it Any feedback, advice or criticism is welcome

Time: 20 hrs
Tools: wide range of graphite pencil, white charcoal, mechanical pencils, tissues...