working with self portrait

I know this is late but, better late than never. My medium of choice would be pencil, i prefer working with graphite especially when I'm shading. I  prefer eboby pencil. Working with conte was great but I was botherd by alllll the rules. the way we have too hold the pencil, and how it would continue to wear down. But I do like charcoal although it gets a little messy sometimes. But overall I would prefer graphite.