Traditional Master Sketching Techniques

Prompt

Masterpiece, best quality, 8k, ultra sharp, PURE ART STYLE ONLY, NO SUBJECT, NO POSE, NO CHARACTER: Traditional hand-drawn portrait sketch technique on {argument name="paper type" default="aged warm off-white / cream beige kraft paper"} with subtle visible paper fiber grain texture across the entire surface. Strict monochrome palette only: pure jet black, full rich range of soft gray tones, and the natural cream paper color used as the brightest highlight value — no pure white, no other colors anywhere. LINE TECHNIQUE (EXACT MATCH): - Mix of three mediums in perfect balance: smooth graphite pencil, soft smudged charcoal, and fluid black ink - Hair rendered with extremely dynamic, long, flowing, fast directional brush and pencil strokes, many loose stray wispy lines extending freely outside the main form, highly varied line weight from razor-thin delicate strands to bold thick dark masses, intentionally imperfect and spontaneous - Facial features drawn with refined, soft, subtle contour lines that disappear and reappear naturally, never a harsh continuous outline, gentle pressure variation creating lifelike sensitivity - Clothing and lower areas use bold, rough, angular, broken brush strokes with visible dry-brush texture, many areas intentionally left incomplete and dissolving into the paper - Visible sketch construction lines subtly showing through in lighter areas as part of the aesthetic SHADING & BRUSH WASH TECHNIQUE (EXACT MATCH): - Large shadow areas (hair mass, neck, clothing) built from broad, translucent, layered black ink wash / watered-down charcoal washes with soft bleeding edges - Overlaid on washes: expressive directional hatching and cross-hatching strokes following 3D form curvature - Facial skin rendered with ultra-smooth blended charcoal gradients, extremely subtle hatching, almost invisible soft transitions for realistic volume, no harsh marks on the face - Contrast is strong but soft: deep rich near-black areas balanced by delicate mid-gray gradients, with the cream paper itself acting as the natural highlight - Many hard-edged bold brush strokes placed intentionally next to soft smudged areas for dynamic tension COMPLETION GRADIENT: - Central facial area = highly refined, smooth, realistic, fully rendered with precise detail - Radiating outward and downward = gradually becomes looser, faster, rougher, more abstract, more incomplete, with strokes cutting off abruptly and dissolving naturally into the bare paper background, no hard border to the artwork - Authentic work-in-progress / sketchbook page aesthetic" OVERALL AESTHETIC: Loose, expressive, emotional, confident, painterly sketch feel, clearly hand-drawn by a master artist, fashion illustration meets fine art academic sketch, elegant movement, dynamic energy, no digital smoothness, no vector perfection, every stroke carries intention --ar 9:16 --style raw --stylize 300 --v 6.0, {argument name="clothing accent" default="bajunya di beri sentuhan hijau tua soft soft"}