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Matthew, congratulations on your scholarship! This is fantastic news. Be sure to keep us posted.
You're getting some excellent advice. I just wanted to add that portrait painters face some pressures which other artists don't face, namely, money is paid out for work expected to be performed in the future, as opposed to buying something off the wall in a gallery. Any time somebody expects future performance, performance anxiety could happen. And if people are paying money to you they could get awfully danged critical. Pressure! (By the way, I've seen some famous and talented actors go into a fear frenzy right before they perform. And then the moment comes and ... boom. They get it together.)
I think what has to happen is that you get to the point where it is more painful not to perform than it is to perform.
Just acting self confident goes a long way to creating actual self confidence. And, look at you, getting all these great commission offers! You must be better than you think!
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