Lately though I've been really out of touch with my artsy shit. Dealing with life I guess. The stereotype that misery makes great art is shit. I don't make anything when I'm down, or if I do I make it so I can then throw it away.
The most important part of portraits is the personality. The design of the piece is as important as the face itself. The colors used and the layout of the image works with the facial expression to make the image say this is a happy/miserable/frustrated person to this is a person happy and secure and open/ miserable and closed off and alone/ frustrated and snappy and bitter.
I'm not saying these really demonstrate any of what I've written-just that I'm working on that.