Art all day everyday

This year is my last doing art at college. After this, hopefully I'll be doing Interior Design at university and so as I am now on my last A Level project, which is an exam, I am putting everything into it! The project before this was a landscape project and it was unlike any of the other projects I have done before. We had these massive A2 sketchbooks which we incredibly difficult to carry and transport backwards and forwards from home to college and also meant I needed a large area to do anything. I like to sit and do a bit of drawing whilst I'm watching a tv show in the evening and so it made things a little difficult. Now I have a lovely LITTLE sketchbook that is square and so just a bit bigger than A4. As much as I disliked the big book it did push me and expanded skills working on a bigger scale and so now I am really appreciating being able to refine my work again and get back to a nice scale I am comfortable with. 

I am a slow and precise worker. I like detailed, pencil observational drawings that take me ages and ages because I like to rub out and redraw, concentrate on shading and getting the contrast of shadow and highlight that bring pieces to life. This sketchbook starts with a stem word, which for me is "Contortion and from this I am looking into artists that concentrate of the face and body and females in particular and hidden beauty. 

I spend most of the evenings during the week in my room catching up on missed shows whilst plowing away at all the artist research and pages I need to create. I find it somewhat therapeutic and relaxing as I have a plan that I just carry out and I do a couple of hours here and then which all add up and I end up with finished pieces. 

I use my time in college to do things such as printing, painting backgrounds and planning as I am in a all girl art class and most of our time is spent laughing and talking and its not easy to concentrate. So my time at home is very different to that as its just me sitting, maybe with the dog, and it seems like the hours fly past and when I look up its 10pm already!