Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let no moment be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
This has the hallmarks of charcoal, and graphite The detail is so fine its hard to tell. The background is really the only texture that implies charcoal. Beautiful detail and wonderful light.