Ellie Lopez has been modelling and drawing at Draw since 2017 - I first met Ellie during her freshers week when she came to sit for a free portrait at Cass Art - the first of many drawings! She has since modelled as a clown and a forest spirit in ...
2020-10-30 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to week seven of our tutored life drawing sessions, focusing on ink and wash - this video is a recording of the live webinar aired on the 28th October 2020. You can watch it as a one-off, or watch it in order with other videos in the course, putting the exercises into action by drawing from our photo reference and onl...
2020-10-28 15:38:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Ink is a versatile medium that can applied to the page with a brush for a more painterly application to the linear approaches we have previously explored. This lesson introduces the materials of ink and wash drawing, alongside some possible approaches.
Ink and wash lends itself to both quick and longer drawing approache...
2020-10-26 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Felix, AKA Captain Clement of pirate band The Captain's Beard has been a regular Draw model for the best part of 8 years, touring with and writing music for the 2020-10-23 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to week six of our tutored life drawing sessions. This video is a recording of the live webinar aired on the 21st October 2020. You can watch it as a one-off, or watch it in order with other videos in the course, putting the exercises into action by drawing from our photo reference and online life classes. You'll find...
2020-10-21 15:09:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Cross hatching is a method of creating patterns of repeated marks that overlap each other. At its simplest, this involves creating layers of lines at different angles to make the tone darker, though there are many different techniques, media and stylistic choices. This lesson will focus on using dip pens for cross hatching al...
2020-10-19 09:04:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Immie started modelling at Draw last year and proved an absolute natural - her own experience life drawing and studies giving her a great insight into what makes an engaging pose. She's currently studying illustration at Kingston uni.
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2020-10-16 20:06:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to week five of our tutored life drawing sessions! This video is a recording of the live webinar aired on the 14th October 2020. You can watch it as a one-off, or watch it in order with other videos in the course, putting the exercises into action by drawing from our photo reference and online life classes. You'll fin...
2020-10-14 15:45:17 +0000 UTC View Post
To co-incide with Inktober we're combining our blogs on tonal markmaking with inky media - this week we'll be looking at hatching in fine liner pens. Fine liners provide a cheap, accessible introduction to ink, creating lines of consistent thickness, and are e...
2020-10-12 08:58:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Frankie is the longest serving model at Draw - she is co-founder of the Drawing Circus and modelled for some of the first sessions here at New England House in 2009, when we were know as The Brighton Life Drawing Sessions. Over those years Frankie's knee length tresses have grown to being taller than her, giving rise to her <...
2020-10-09 08:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to week four of our tutored life drawing sessions! This video is a recording of the live webinar aired on the 7th October 2020. You can watch it as a one-off, or watch it in order with other videos in the course, putting the exercises into action by drawing from our photo reference and online life classes. You'll find...
2020-10-07 16:13:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Tone refers to variations in light and dark - both observed in a subject, or in the marks of your drawing. When drawing tonally, we could be expressing a range of ideas. We often think of tonal values, the light and dark we observe, but other possibilities for using tone include creating sculptural drawings with modelle...
2020-10-05 08:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In the old world, we would test out our new drawing shows at the Brighton Fringe before the extravagant national tours of the summer and autumn; we found a fitting venue in the form of the Bosco Theatre, a century-old Dutch circus tent, with a canvas roof, wooden walls and a high painted facade that led to the raked setting a...
2020-10-02 11:54:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I first met Carole about 8 years ago when she was running hen party life drawing classes for RAM - since then she has become an incredibly special part of Draw, as a life model, Wednesday night Life Drawing regular and the face behind the leonine mask of Kitty, the Drawing Circus lion.
Todays photoset has two rota...
2020-10-02 10:42:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to week three, focusing on Negative Space! This video is a recording of the live webinar aired on the 30th September, 2020. You can watch it as a one-off, or watch it in order with other videos in the course, putting the exercises into action by drawing from our photo reference and online life classes. You'll find all...
2020-09-30 15:57:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Negative space is a useful visual idea for our drawing, and understanding it helps us flatten out what we see and translate it onto paper. This allows us to tackle otherwise challenging subjects, such as complex shapes, or foreshortened forms.
This week we will be looking at what negative space is, and different ways to...
2020-09-28 08:09:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Todays clothed pose set is from our favourite Parisian, Virgile Demoustier. Virgile is a painter and recently graduated from Brighton University - he is currently off in Europe, running 2020-09-25 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Beth has been modelling at Draw for almost exactly 6 years - she is best known for regularly heckling drawing tutors and the dramatic pose-sequence that told the tragic story of the theft of her beloved bicycle in 2018. When she's not life modelling ...
2020-09-25 08:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to week two of the tutored life drawing course, focusing on contour! This video is a recording of the live webinar aired on the 23rd September, 2020. You can watch it as a one-off, or watch it in order with other videos in the course, putting the exercises into action by drawing from our photo reference and online lif...
2020-09-23 15:34:29 +0000 UTC View Post
We briefly explored contour drawing in our lesson Introduction to Life Drawing and this week we'll be going into a little more depth. Contour plays an important rol...
2020-09-21 08:25:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Bruno had only been modelling at Draw for a few months when the pandemic got into full swing. At the few life classes he posed for he proved himself a dedicated life model while at the Draw Christmas party he proved that he danced an excellent time warp; we're super pleased that he could model for this portrait set i...
2020-09-18 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the first video in our tutored life drawing course, led by Lancelot Richardson! This video is a recording of the live webinar which you can watch as a one-off, or watch in order with the rest of the course. We recommend putting al...
2020-09-16 18:47:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the first of our Draw online tutored life drawing course blogs. This blog is free and publicly available, so feel free to share it with anybody who might be keen to read it. All other blogs in the series are available to our Patreon supporters on all tiers. They are suitable for all abilities and are intended to he...
2020-09-14 08:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Charlie had been modelling at Draw for less than a year before Covid-19 closed our studio - Charlie's expressive and challenging poses are always a pleasure to draw, so it was wonderful to be able to have them pose for this set of reference photos. If you're a sculptor and keen to get some 360 degree rotations of poses ...
2020-09-11 08:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Priss Nash has been a life model at Draw for several years and has (in various wigs and headpieces) been a showgirl and forest spirit in various Drawing Circuses; alongside her life modelling she is a 2020-09-04 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
As I've had lots of requests for Naomi Wood's aerial poses on here we are publishing her set of mid-air reference images as this months Drawing Circus post. Usually we'd include tableau images, but as you have a 2020-09-04 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear supporters,
As the summer draws to a close I can't thank you all enough for continuing to stick with us - your support has allowed us to support our models and tutors with ongoing work and to prepare for the years ahead. As we move forward into an uncertain autumn and winter the safety of the most vulnerable people...
2020-08-31 09:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Gracie is back! She was the first model for our all-tiers photoset at the start of lockdown and as we run to the end of the photos commissioned in the first weeks of the pandemic we thought we'd release some of the other photos from that sho...
2020-08-28 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
As we head towards the end of the summer we thought we'd finish August on some photos that evoke sunny days. Laura's clothed photo set precede Gracie's life photoset, which will be released later today. As a bonus, we're making this photoset available for all supporters to accompany this weeks blog post on drawing clothe...
2020-08-28 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Clothing and costume are a common challenge we encounter in our drawing, especially outside of the liferoom! It is useful to have some confidence with drawing clothing, as it inevitably pops up with human subjects, such as in portraiture and illustration. Building on last weeks focus on drapery we be looking at how to draw cl...
2020-08-26 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
