Vanitas 10 update (12-27-2016)

I have worked my way with the graphite pencil up to B3 at this point gradually building up the skin tones. I am not sure if I should go any darker than this. I will decide on that much later after seeing the overall balance of values. I am also having a second thought about the use of watercolor now. This is Bristol board. It is thick but there still might be inevitable warping if it was wet and dried. So I might try using charcoal for the background with extra texture added by acetone. This composition with the figure at the bottom is the right orientation of this piece and the final piece will be almost square like this image below.