British-Nigerian sketch artist Kevin Okafor photographs each step of his drawings, you get a glimpse at his technique, and it is impressive how he uses charcoal for the hair—he smudges it, and then with a pen eraser thinly threads and creates highlights. He also uses other materials such as Faber-Castell graphite and black colored pencils.
(Source: unicorn-meat-is-too-mainstream, via theworkinghands)
Plate photographed through tissue.
The frontispiece to The Blossoming of the Waste by Edith Nicholl Ellison (1908). Original from the University of Virginia. Digitized December 16, 2010.