To do my daughters GCSE course work?

you’re in so deep managing her work. She’s not learning to stand on her own two feet like this. You’re writing a very long explanation on why what you’re doing is okay.

Your daughter is cheating and you’re teaching her to cheat

Good you've decided not to, it's honestly not worth it.

Leave it out, layer the discarded attempts into a statement piece (confusion/multi layer of man/woman), i was diagnosed with ADHD at secondary school and it used to help me when I was in this sort of spital to set a timer and know whatever was produced at the end was it.

This. What's the point?

Could you/she ask a neighbour or a school friend or a local Facebook page for thin paper or baking paper? Someone will be near enough to help.

Sorry SEN is no excuse for this. If she can't do the work then she fails. She is just a couple of years from the real world, how is she going to cope if this is what you're teaching her?

The worst thing you can do is handhold her through this- that will make her feel very overwhelmed. Leave her ADHD brain to to what it does best. If you had left her to it her mind would likely have worked out a masterpiece at the last minute but now all your research will be added to the noise in her brain and confusing her because it’s not her work.

I know you’re trying to help but your input has likely caused some panic freeze. Regardless, cheating isn’t cool. Leave her alone - she’ll get it done. It might not be in a way you like but that’s just ADHD for you.

Just seen you only have watercolour paper. Graphite transfer should work.

Get dd to finish one you’ve helped with. Get as much done today as she can do and submit. There’s only so much stress kids can take over this.

Absolutely not. My dd has ADHD. Her coursework marks have all been appalling. I would a million times rather she gets a lower mark for a gcse and learns that actually starting something which takes 4 hours ten minutes before it’s due in, doesn’t work. That will help her more in life than me (or someone else) doing it for her when she hasn’t put a strategy in place to get it done.

See my above post. A graphite transfer might work instead of tracing.
If not, can you bring the original image up on a laptop (take a photo), change the contrast to make it bolder and kind of use it as a lightbox to get the base shapes and outlines. Once she had that she should be able to produce something (regardless of quality).

No because you are not teaching her lessons she needs to learn, such as perfectionism is unhelpful, something is better than nothing, good enough is good enough, achieving something hard feels good. You take away from her confidence in the long term if you accidentally teach her to give up.
Can she print out a photo of the person, put paper over it, normal A4? , and tape it to a window and she traces over it to get the bare bones?
I know it’s really hard to know how much help is too much moment by moment, and it is important to think of context (eg don’t help too much if it’s key knowledge they need for the next stage as if they can’t do it it’s better they fail now). But the ‘help don’t rescue’ mantra is good.

Ps you can also tell chatgpt what supplies you do and don't have, and ask it for clever ideas to get round the tracing issue.

Gosh I real feel for both you and your DD OP.

My suggestion would be to use ChatGPT. Explain the context to it fully (GCSE sketch demonstrating X, Y, Z as part of a project on A) and the struggles you DD is having and why. Ask it to break the task down into mirco steps. Like, really, really small steps. Also ask it for some encouraging words for your DD and will help her with the "I just need to get this done" thing and overcome the perfectionism.

Then give your DD these steps ONE AT A TIME. Do not let her see the full list so she doesn't get overwhelmed. Give her breaks when she needs it.

Good luck, its not easy.

You know this is wrong, OP. You're trying to justify it to yourself because it's really hard to watch your child struggle. As an SEN parent myself I totally get that, but you can't just do it for her. If you do, she will always know and whether she shows it or not she will feel some degree of shame around it. Then there's the distinct possibility of her being found out, which is bound to be anxiety provoking. She just needs to do the best she can, and if it's not 'enough' then yes, it might be upsetting for her to fail but it's not the end of the world. She won't gain any sense of achievement or pride from a grade she knows she got by cheating.

I can see why you are temoted, and have huge sympathy, but it’s cheating - nonoyher word for it.

Sorry if it has been mentioned but y9u can usually trace using normal A4 if you just put both images up on a window - there's usually enough light that you can see the image you're tracing.

Maybe your DD just isn’t good enough at Art to do the work to a certain standard. That’s ok! Doing it for her is pretty despicable I’m afraid. You’re showing her that what she’s produced herself isn’t good enough, that you’ll happily cheat in order for her to get by. What an awful message to give her. Poor kid.

Then I'd encourage her to have another go today and if she simply can't do it go with yours as a last resort. To be honest if she sees yours it might help her get started. Probably a bit late now but light boards are amazing for tracing, don't know if you'd get one in Argos quickly. amzn.eu/d/9voIOoo

Definitely not. If it’s better than her usual work, her teachers will smell a rat. You’ll also undermine her confidence in herself and the result at the end will feel hollow and empty, and feel like that for her whole life.

The support you’re giving her is plenty and more than most people will get.

No. She needs to learn that there are consequences to her action or inaction. I understand that it's mostly due to her ADHD that she couldn't focus on the portrait, but it's still something she has to learn to develop coping mechanisms for to help her actually get shit done, or coping mechanisms for the fallout if that's what happens.

I say that as someone with health conditions myself, that also impacted me in school. My parents didn't give a damn and did not help me. Yes, would've been "nice" if they did, but it was mkre valuable to me to understand how the world was going to react to me. It's not pleasant, but those are the hands we are dealt. We need to learn to live with them, and your daughter is at an age where learning will benefit.

This is your daughter's reality. She either finds a way to cope and do the portrait, or she doesn't and she has to understand that has consequences - whether her ADHD makes it harder or not. She's going to have to work one day, and you won't be able to be in her workplace for her.

Regarding thin paper to trace - do you have any baking paper?

The amount of work involved in the coursework is too much

Do you have baking paper? You can substitute for tracing paper or WH Smith would prob be open today?
with the baking paper use a pen to get the outline of the drawing - turn over the baking paper and shade area with lead pencil - turn back over and place on white paper and follow pen outline again. By pressing with the pen onto the baking paper a faint pencil mark will be transferred to the white paper -
do two of these and suggest you both sit down together at the same table and do one each as a trial. Make sure she thinks of it as a trial - hopefully the ‘trial’ will turn into something useful for her portfolio