For my self portrait, I took a photo of myself as reference to make it a lot easier to go back and forth to instead of using a mirror, so that I would have the same angle to look at.I began by drawing the shape of my head lightly with a 2H pencil. I added in the the nose, eyes and mouth lightly too a few times until I was happy with the shape of them.
I switch to a softer grade of a HB pencil and began defining to details of the nose, eyes and mouth and adding in some of the wrinkles around the eyes. For the eyebrows and hair I went with a B grade and did some small hatching for the eyes brows and slowly built them up with the layers to make them darker and thicker. For the hair I did the same but this time with longer lines and but not as layered to keep it a little lighter.