Friday, 4 March 2016

Doodles and Sketches

Hey world! Lately with school, I've been getting really stressed out, mainly with all the school work and all the expectations placed on me. It's come to test time and I'm really stressed out as I have quite a few assignments to look at and I need to do revision for an upcoming test. It's freaking me out massively and so I've found lately that sketching is really helping to calm my nerves. I know that it will get easier in a weird way and that it's only my first term, but I've been loving art lately anyway. Here are a few of my latest sketches:

I'm sorry about the lighting in the first one, it's not all that great! However I am really happy with both of these pictures - they're some of my best pictures to date. My art teacher's been really great with helping me - for years I've done straight, thick lines which has made it really hard to erase and make it look better. Now I've learnt that you should do lots of little lines that make it much easier to erase and edit, and it just looks all round better than what I was doing before. A lot better.

What are your methods for coping with revision stress? I have this.... And a very unhealthy chocolate addiction...

El xx

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12 comments:

  1. Rosie4 March 2016 at 22:09

    Cute drawings! x

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  2. Beth5 March 2016 at 04:18

    Love them! I like to zentangle or have a bubble bath to de-stress xx

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    1. Trish5 March 2016 at 13:04

      Thanks! I've grown out of my zentangle phase unfortunately... But I'm always up for a bubble bath!

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  3. Hannah Porter5 March 2016 at 07:33

    Aw these little creations are sooooo cute! I love them!xxx

    Check out my recent?
    www.hannahporterx.blogspot.co.uk

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    1. Trish5 March 2016 at 13:04

      Thank you! Yeah I'm really happy with them :)

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  4. Acqua6 March 2016 at 13:47

    These drawings are so cute! It's true, you have to draw little lines, but then that's a problem for me because I'm fairly good at pencil drawing but I can't draw with ink hahaha

    onmywayacqua.blogspot.com | Acqua xx

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    1. Trish6 March 2016 at 23:17

      Thank yoooouuuuu! Yeah my past drawings were really bad, but I've improved quite a bit :)

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  5. CG @ Paper Fury7 March 2016 at 02:53

    It's SUCH a great idea to relieve stress with art. ;D I honestly...forget to when I'm stressed. I tend to just read. BUT I do love to zentangle and I have one of those adult-colouring-in-books that I really have done nothing with yet but I want to try eventually. :P Good job on your drawings! And I hope school calms down a bit for you soon? :( Being stressed is the woooorst.

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    1. Trish7 March 2016 at 11:15

      Yes! I feel like I don't do enough of it anyway :). And yeah, reading does help as well. I used to love zentangle, but I've kinda grown out of it over the past year and I do a little adult colouring in. Probably too little! Thank you, and I hope so too xx

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  6. ℓaiℓa12 March 2016 at 07:21

    Omg recently I have been eating soooo much cakes and chocolate. I also like to doodle and watch TV. The pressure of good grades are really frustrating sometimes. *sigh* keep doodling!
    Laila
    www.lailabee.blogspot.co.uk

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    1. Trish14 March 2016 at 00:25

      Ugh, I agree. I've eaten my body weight in chocolate trying to struggle through maths homework. And TV is way too addicting - ugh I need to turn it off! But hey, it is worth it in the end. Have fun, darl!
      xx

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