Meet Emma Sweeting

Art Social's CEO and Founder is a practising portrait and sketchnote artist.

When I'm not hosting socials, I teach Art to schoolkids and make visual sketchnotes at conferences to keep audiences enthralled. My sketchy, scratchy portraits have been featured in The Sunday Times and The Daily Mail and I've painted murals in schools and offices up and down the land.

Feast your eyes at @sweetingsgreetings and @artsocialmaidenhead

Forget doom-scrolling on your phone: It's guaranteed to give you a humpy back, a triple chin and a menty B.

Chuck your phone in the Thames and keep a pen and notebook in your bag instead.

• Stuck on a slow train?

• Queuing at check-out?

• Been on-hold for half an hour?

Embrace the pause: Whip out your notebook and get drawing!

• Doodle that tubby bloke in your train carriage, scoffing a scotch egg.

• Capture that still life composition on the conveyer belt at Aldi.

• Sketch the view from your window while the hold music plays on...and on.

  Time will pass in a flash - and you'll be sanguine and calm like never before.

Emma's philosophy: