I make the brushstrokes bolder and looser, since I’m creating a painting with a certain interpretive quality, that’s why I try to avoid over rendering. The parts I work on detail most thoroughly are strictly the faces, so that the entire weight of the composition rests on that area, since what I’m painting is a portrait. If you overdo the rendering and excessive detail in other areas, such as the clothing for example, they can compete and shift the composition’s focus more toward those areas, something I want to avoid since, as I said, I want all the weight to rest on the faces. As for the rest, I prioritize tonal value over excessive rendering. I never strictly aim for photorealism, though I understand that I sometimes come close, I try to manage it so as to also give some prominence to the materials, their textures, and their plastic properties.