How to draw a female figure in charcoal

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Sharing my drawing process for this expressive charcoal female figure sketch in a step-by-step tutorial.

00:00 - intro
00:05 - materials
01:08 - drawing construction
02:18 - toning the paper
03:00 - adding shadows and rendering
05:59 - head construction
07:49 - adding highlights
08:50 - final tidy-ups

Materials used for this drawing:
Willow charcoal - https://geni.us/tUDwU (Amazon)*
Compressed charcoal pencil - https://geni.us/dkDF6 (Amazon)*
Kneaded eraser - https://geni.us/AZrjVhS (Amazon)*
Toned grey artist paper - https://geni.us/3lKey3 (Amazon)*
Brush - https://geni.us/g2101 (Amazon)*
Blending stump - https://geni.us/MGBi (Amazon)*

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