I need help
4d
Anubhav Saini
Hello everyone today I want to ask and vent out some of the stress i have and it has always been that when I am doing portrait drawing my mind is like bonkers too much stressed heaviness all over the mind while making a portrait and I am always worrying about getting the likeness 100 percent of the photo whenever I am doing a portrait drawing and then the drawing of a portrait becomes so much stressful and all these super prolific pristine artist like jeff watts,erik gist and stephen bauman whenever they are drawing portraits do they always have a 100 percent likeness can't they have have lower likeness maybe 70 percent or 50 percent and all the time I am worrying in portrait drawing that my portrait drawing doesn't have accurate 100 percent likeness like as if it is a print out mannn fuckkk it sucks this stresss!!!!!!!!! And I feel like we have glorified copying accurately 100 percent accuracy of the refference we use for our respective artworks that we all have become slaves to it this mindset destroys the creativity and makes art so fuckin stressful and it sucks fuck I hate this stress my mind will explode like this way I am going please help me in this!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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4d
It takes a lot of practice, and the artists you mentioned have all dedicated many hours and years to developing their skills.
It might help you to pinpoint what area is giving you the most trouble with portraits. Is it the facial features, proportions, the size or shape of the head? Maybe a specific feature like eyes or nose.
References can be very helpful, but I would try to not stress so much about copying 1:1. If you want to stylize and change things from your reference, go for it! Find things in your references that you like and find ways to capture that in your drawings.
And, it might help to revisit portraits later. Draw some things you really like drawing, that don't add to your stress. Art becomes a chore when you're only doing assignments and not doing things you enjoy. Take breaks, and good luck!
