A few weeks ago I did a short online art course, the Saturday Sketch Club with the Royal Academy of Arts. The session was about drawing from the imagination with the artist Emyr Williams. It was so good for me because it’s something I just don’t normally do, I like to work from life.

In this exercise I placed 4 dots onto the paper, roughly in the position of two eyes, tip of the nose and mouth. Next I scribbled randomly across the paper without taking the pencil off it. Then I started emphasising and filling in areas to represent the features of a face, using the lines that are there, not making new ones. I like doing this, it looks like something that could be developed into machine embroidery.