How to get the List for Your Portrait ready
Your Portrait starts with your List - all that you want to include in your Portrait.
For some it can be as easy as sitting down and just making a list of all they want to see on the final art piece, all under 5 minutes.
In other cases allowing some time to build ideas of what you want for your Portrait is a better approach. Jot down any ideas you can think of, whenever they arrive. Start thinking of what it can be, give yourself a task to come up with the list and get back to that list with different ideas whenever they arrive.
If it’s a Portrait for yourself - look through your photos, listen to your favourite music or the music from a particular time you want to include in your Portrait. Do some journaling, if you are into it, dedicate some quiet time to yourself, make it a meditation, a reflexion of a particular experience.
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If it’s a gift Portrait for someone else - do a little research depending on the topic of a Portrait. Their social media content, a chat with common friends, your own memories - inspiration can be found anywhere!
Collect the photo references and names of all the favourite places, things, anything else you want to include in the final piece and send them over to me via email.
If you are after allusions and metaphors - please jot down your description of what a particular idea means to you and which images will best represent it.
I might also ask you additional questions or ask for an extra reference photo, or suggest an alternative idea if I feel it might add to the portrait.
Then I’d compile a general sketch aiming to show the disposition of different elements on your Portrait for your approval. After getting a ‘yes’ from you I’ll go ahead with drawing your Portrait.
