About the drawing:  Ludwik Benoit is an actor that I know from the classic Polish movie Ewa Chce Spać / Ewa wants to sleep (1957), directed by Tadeusz Chmielewski. It's a sweet comedy that I enjoyed watching a lot. I'm generally a big fan of Polish cinema and I'm especially fond of the old classics. I really liked the stills in this movie and they inspired me to make this drawing. My first portrait drawing was also based on this movie. It's a drawing of "Ewa" or Barbara Kiatkowska-Lass in real life. Below I have added a trailer of the movie. Unfortunately it is not subtitled, but it is still nice to watch for the cinematography. I have also added a video of the fairy-tale-like intro of the movie. I love the song that the movie starts with.  

I created this portrait drawing in May 2015 and it was the last drawing that I made for about three years to come. It is the second pen drawing in which I used crosshatching and dotting techniques. There are not so many different skin tones and the depth is mainly visible around the eyes and eyebrows where i did some crosshatching. I pretty much like how the combination of crosshatching and dotting worked out. 

Materials: I used pigma microns / fineliners in all different sizes for this drawing (0.2mm-0.5mm). Usually it is recommended to use thin and smooth paper for pen drawings. However, I used fine grain (rather than smooth) heavyweight paper of 120 lbs (Daler Rowney). Since the surface is not too smooth it was perfect to use graphite very lightly to create a skin pattern in the whiter parts of the face. Here I did not blend the graphite into the paper, while in the darker parts where you find the shadow I did. I like the combination here of the pen and graphite. The format of the paper is A4.