Final Assignment - Final Fantasy Drawing

FINALLY!! I have done my art work for the basic drawing final assignment. This piece of drawing spent me one week of time to complete it. I had use the graphite pencil as my main medium because I found that the  graphite pencil is more easier to control compare to the charcoal. Although I want to combined those two medium, but I found that two do not necessarily work together. If you really want to do that, you need a very well plan before you do that. The another reason that I choose graphite rather than charcoal is because graphite is not as messy as charcoal, so that the paper can stay cleaner. Anyway, choose what medium to use is totally personal.
This drawing is mainly done by using graphite pencil rather than normal pencil because I want the darkness that normal pencil can not achieve, but graphite do.
I have take some time to get the proportion right and arrange the characters until it look more better. Moreover, I have use the shading technique that I researched before, which are tonal shading, smudge shading and hatching shading. However, the shading techniques that I use the most are tonal and smudge, because this two techniques are very useful to create realistic feel and look. For the hatching technique, I only use it for the hair and the blade.
Although I can't draw it to be exactly like the reference, but I am still quite satisfied with my drawing because this is my first time to draw on an A2 size paper. Anyway, anyhow, I hope you guys will love it.