I found another tutorial today on how to change a Color photo into a Charcoal drawing. There was nothing wrong with the tutorial. In fact I though it was quite easy to follow. The problem I had was the subject matter. The video was using a white girl as the subject matter, and I thought I'd try it using a black girl.

Off hand, I'd say that finding a balance between the paper texture and the image is the key in this case. To be honest, I still feel this could be done better. I wanted to show that she was a black woman, but I didn't want to "whitewash" all the color out of her.