From wishes to eternity

A portrait done for my best friend as a birthday gift. I am sorry to say I am not fully satisfied with the outcome of this, but I appreciate the fact that she liked it. It was a lot of work and I realized some of me weak points, one of them being the lack of attention, at times. I had another drawing, an almost exact copy of this, but before doing the shadings on the face, I ruined it by spilling something on it. The first one took me 10 hours, this one took me 7 hours.

Pencils: Mechanical 2B 0.7, Graphic 2B, 3B, 5B, 7B, Sketching 4B
Tools: tissue, kneadable eraser
Paper: A4 Bristol Smooth
Time: 7 hours