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Life drawing replay: Danna (Coat hangers)

This video is a recording of a live Zoom life drawing session, aired on 8th March 2023. The recording is shared here so that you can catch up and draw from the session if you missed it, or continue to work on a drawing if you attended live! As this is a recording of a live session the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded loca...

Portrait recording: Adrian

This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 6th March 2023. It is shared here so that you can catch up and draw from the session if you missed it, or continue to work on a portrait if you attended live. As this is a recording of a live Zoom session the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a much lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded locally ...

Life drawing replay: Lilith (Silent movie Vamps)

This video is a recording of a live Zoom life drawing session, aired on 1st March 2023. The recording is shared here so that you can catch up and draw from the session if you missed it, or continue to work on a drawing if you attended live! As this is a recording of a live session the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded loca...

Portrait Drawing Course Term 1, Lesson 2: Horizons of the face

This video is Lesson 2 of the 'Learning to see' term - in this lesson I'll show you how to make haptic drawing, explain contour drawing and introduce the drawings of Hans Holbein the Younger, looking at the pouncing method of translating a drawing onto another surface. To get full benefit from the course, watch o...

Portrait Recording: Lauren

This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 27th Feb 2023. It is shared here so that you can catch up and draw from the session if you missed it, or continue to work on a portrait if you attended live. As this is a recording of a live Zoom session the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a much lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded locally a...

Portrait Drawing course release day change

Hi everybody, 

I'm just writing to let you know that we're going to change the release date of the Portrait Drawing course to Tuesday evenings (UK time) each week, that will give us a little more time to prepare the videos and ensure that we're releasing them on time each week. 

Also, by Tuesday evenings we will always have released weekly Monday portrait recording, giving...

Life drawing reply: Nasim (The Sea)

This video is a recording of a live Zoom life drawing session, aired on 22nd Feb 2023. The recording is shared here so that you can catch up and draw from the session if you missed it, or continue to work on a drawing if you attended live! As this is a recording of a live session the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded local...

Portrait Drawing Course Term 1, Lesson 1: Seeing without prejudice

Welcome to week one of our portrait course! If you'd like to know more about the whole course visit the Draw Navigator HERE or pop me an email on info@draw-brighton.co.uk. 

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This video is Lesson 1 of the 'Learning to see' term - in this lesson I'll int...

Portrait Recording: Timothy

This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 20th Feb 2023. It is shared here so that you can catch up and draw from the session if you missed it, or continue to work on a portrait if you attended live. As this is a recording of a live Zoom webinar the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a much lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded locally a...

Clothed Photo-set: Bella

As Bella modelled for this Wednesday life drawing session we thought it was high time we released this clothed photo-set of Bella in one of her (many) unitards. It is a previously unreleased photoset from our original 2020 series and includes three clothed figure rotations. Bella is studio manager at Draw and looks after the in-person diary as well as modelling at Draw and running her own life ...

Life drawing replay: Bella (Harlequin themed, clothed)

This video is a recording of a live Zoom life drawing session, aired on 15th Feb 2023. The recording is shared here so that you can catch up and draw from the session if you missed it, or continue to work on a drawing if you attended live! As this is a recording of a live Zoom webinar the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded ...

Draw feedback system

Hi everybody, 

We've been using Slack to give feedback to you all on your work, however Slack recently changed their access options so that on our pricing tier you can no longer revisit feedback from more than 90 days ago. We are exploring other options for similar systems, including Discord, which should be as easy to use as Slack, with broader functionality. 

If you use,...

The Portrait Drawing Course

Welcome to our Portrait Drawing Course! This course is still being released, with videos coming out according to the schedule below. It is a free addition to the Portrait, Life & Student tiers of the Patreon and can be treated as a single course, with videos that can be watched monthly, dipped into more casually for portrait ideas and advice. You'll always be able to find links to the full ...

Portrait Recording: Ivory

This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 13th Feb 2023. It is shared here so that you can catch up and draw from the session if you missed it, or continue to work on a portrait if you attended live. As this is a recording of a live Zoom webinar the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a much lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded locally a...

Navigating the Draw Patreon

If you're new to the Patreon or would like some extra help finding your way around, the video above is for you! The rest of this post is here to help you find everything you need on the Patreon as quickly as possible - it will stay pinned to the top of the Patreon feed so that you can find it any time you log in. Don't forget you can browse links to all of our drawings resources on the Draw Nav...

Life Photo-set: Annie (aka AFLO. the poet)

This is Annie's final photo-set from our last photoshoot, although she has life modelled a lot at the Draw studio since she started at Draw with the first Drawversity photosets this was her very first unclothed photoshoot ever and it is our privilege to be able to share the reference photos with you. Annie is in the last year of her PHD, so the monthly royalties from the photosets are helping t...

Life drawing replay: Musa (Mughal paintings)

This video is a recording of a live Zoom life drawing session, aired on 8th Feb 2023. The recording is shared here so that you can catch up and draw from the session if you missed it, or continue to work on a drawing if you attended live! As this is a recording of a live Zoom webinar the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded l...

Portrait Recording: Sophie pt. 2

This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 6th Feb 2023. It is shared here so that you can catch up and draw from the session if you missed it, or continue to work on a portrait if you attended live. As this is a recording of a live Zoom webinar the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a much lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded locally an...

Clothed Photo-set: Kimi

We're in the last month of our latest round of reference and we'll be shooting a new set very soon! Here is a clothed rotation from Kimi. Alongside a checkerboard career ranging from working at an opticians to running life drawing sessions at festivals Kimi used to work as a professional mermaid. It is a role she has often reprised for the Drawing Circus and the inspiration behind the choice of...

Patreon Update 2023

Hello lovely people,

With both January and the lunar new year very much passed I figured it was about time to give you all an update on what 2023 has in store for the Draw Brighton Patreon. Megan and I see every new person who supports the Patreon and it is so exciting to see our cohort of supporters continuing to grow beyond our UK bubble into an international community of people who lov...

Life drawing replay: Vilidian (Jan Saudek)

This video is a recording of a live Zoom life drawing session, aired on 1st Feb 2023. The recording is shared here so that you can catch up and draw from the session if you missed it, or continue to work on a drawing if you attended live! As this is a recording of a live Zoom webinar the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded l...

Portrait Recording: Eden

This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 30th Jan 2023. It is shared here so that you can catch up and draw from the session if you missed it, or continue to work on a portrait if you attended live. As this is a recording of a live Zoom webinar the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a much lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded locally a...

Semi-clothed photo-set: Naomi Rufina

As we near the end of the run of reference images shot at The Brighton Studio last year we get to share some of our extra model-let sets, like these two sei-clothed rotations, proposed by Naomi at the end of the shoot. We'll be sharing more details of this years reference shoots in the next couple of weeks and we'd love ...

Life drawing replay: Clapmutt

This video is a recording of a live Zoom life drawing session, aired on 25th Jan 2022. The recording is shared here so that you can catch up and draw from the session if you missed it, or continue to work on a drawing if you attended live! As this is a recording of a live Zoom webinar the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded ...

Portrait Recording: Bertie

This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 23rd Jan 2023. It is shared here so that you can catch up and draw from the session if you missed it, or continue to work on a portrait if you attended live. As this is a recording of a live Zoom webinar the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a much lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded locally a...

Portait Photo-set: Kimi

Kimi started modelling with us in the early days of the Drawing Circus, more than a decade ago. Since then she has started her own themed drawing sessions, Malice in Wasteland, performing at festivals around the UK and Europe. In this photo-set Kimi was keen to wear one of her recycled headdresses from her latest Boomto...

Life drawing replay: Hannah & Alex (Intimacy)

This video is a recording of a live Zoom life drawing session, aired on 18th Jan 2022. The recording is shared here so that you can catch up and draw from the session if you missed it, or continue to work on a drawing if you attended live! As this is a recording of a live Zoom webinar the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded ...

Portrait recording: Nina, Millie & Zoe

This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 16th Jan 2023. It is shared here so that you can catch up and draw from the session if you missed it, or continue to work on a portrait if you attended live. As this is a recording of a live Zoom webinar the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a much lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded locally a...

Clothed Photo-set: Annie (aka AFLO. the poet)

For our first photo-set of the year we have a clothed photo-set of poet and academic Annie (aka AFLO. the poet). Annie started modelling with Draw through Jade's Drawversity, a programme set up to make life modelling and life drawing more accessible to people of colour in Brighton. She is now a regular at both our in-person sessions...

Life drawing replay: Frankie (Magritte theme)

This video is a recording of a live Zoom life drawing session, aired on 11th Jan 2022. The recording is shared here so that you can catch up and draw from the session if you missed it, or continue to work on a drawing if you attended live! As this is a recording of a live Zoom webinar the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded ...