Pencil Portrait of Ciri

And again. Not having been happy with the previous version of this drawing, I decided to add a darker, more shadowy background for better contrast with the light hair. It's still not perfect, I still see room for improvement, but I am a lot happer than with the previous version. 

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A3, regular cheap paper. 
Pencils (2H - 8B), pencil-shaped eraser, kneaded eraser, paper smudging tool)