Want to make GREAT portraits - Sort your mindset!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 เม.ย. 2024
- I know why you struggle with portraits...
Why you lack motivation
Why you fear failing
Why it takes you so long
Why you’re never happy with your work
Why you don't enjoy the process
It's because you don't have the "Right Mindset"
I've been there, wanting to create something, but unable to make a start. Frustrated. Angry. Sad. No self-belief or self-confidence. A dark place!
"But that's how it is for creative people", they said - Tortured. (thanks Vincent)
The result was that I stopped making any kind of art for 30 years.
:(
So how do you get the "Right Mindset" ?
It's easier than you think
When I started making art again I did it just for me. I wasn't going to show it to anyone. I didn't want anyone's approval. Most importantly, I didn't expect anything from it, whether it was good or bad didn't matter.
That was the first step in my journey
I'd simply removed some of the obstacles and all of a sudden I'm making art and I'm enjoying it.
As I started to get to grips with what was happening I became incredibly prolific. Although I wasn't focusing on portraits I just started making them. First in oils then in charcoal and since I'd never worked in either medium before, I took it as a sign that what I was doing was something special. As if my creativity had been set free!
I had a different mindset!
From being creatively crippled all those years ago I'm suddenly making portraits every day and loving every minute of it.
Nothing was stopping me.
I focused only on doing it. Not whether I would produce something good or if someone would like it or whether I had the right tools or skills.
Since 2019 I've made over 2000 portraits
www.thejoyofportraiture.com/
Amazing work !
Thank you!
Thank you so much talking about expectations people make comments and they don’t do creative work if they want perfection take a photo, sorry got my mad up
I love your ‘rambling’ as you express your passion.
Bless you :)
Thank you very much for this talk, it has been extremely encouraging!😊
It seems like our thinking will sabotage the richness art brings to us if we allow it. Thanks for sharing 😊
I think for me it's fear of failure and fear of success.
Because you have the wrong mindset :)
Thx for sharing Mr. Swaby!!❤
Would u ever consider doing videos where you critique or do "how to improve" videos based on your channel viewers work?
not sure, people send me stuff and I always feedback. It may not be what they expect as a rarely talk about skill and technique. What I'm acutely aware of is that it's someone's creative soul and who am I to reduce that to irrelevant observations of whether they dragged the charcoal in the right direction or not. :)
having said that I will do all I can to help people improve (whatever that means) :)
Wow. Very long time i missed your videos. Currently i am in india. Next month i go back to kuwait.
Hey Tony! Loud and clear my friend! Would you recommend Robert Henri's book The Art Spirit? Why?
Yes, because he said much of what I say :)
I get stuck in a rut I love drawing especially faces but I can never get a likeness drives me nuts
stop trying :)
Wow. How can i contact you???
There's a form on my site :)
@@TonySwaby i want to study portrait from you. Is it possible. Currently i am working in kuwait.
@@krishna_saadhu of course, we might have to work round the time difference but it's definitely possible. Email via my website and I'll send you my fees :)