I love to doodle. I find drawing very relaxing. It doesn’t take much brainpower – it’s a different kind of effort that is more therapeutic than taxing. You can listen to music or have the television on in the background, and just do it at your own pace.
For me this is slow. I am a perfectionist when it comes to drawing in a way that I’m not in anything else. This means small drawings can take a few days, and often I don’t finish them. But I don’t mind; I think enjoying the drawing is more important than the result.
To begin with, I started drawing in pencil. I’d done Art Textiles at school where I got to draw and design my pieces, but that was always with some direction given to us that we had to follow. I wanted to draw what I wanted without having to justify it or fit within a brief.
One of the first things in my sketchbook is a pencil version of my favourite painting, William Holman Hunt’s ‘The Lady of Shalott.’ I studied the Pre-Raphaelites at university which is where I first saw it. I started with the hair and worked my way down, observing what I was drawing from a copy of the painting in a book. It took several hours to get to the point it is at now due to the level of detail, but I haven’t worked on it for a while. So it so far remains unfinished, but I liked the result, and this gave me the confidence to try something new.
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