Although this video was released at Christmas, the exercise make great light-hearted drawing challenges any time of the year! In the video Lancelot Richardson demonstrates the exercises from Week 13 of Tutored Life Drawing Course, with a whole load of short, playful exercises to help you do a little low-pressure drawing...
2021-12-22 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everybody,
As we're on our one-week Christmas break there is no live portrait drawing session tonight, so I just wanted to take the opportunity to thank all of you who have been coming along to the portrait sessions. We started them as an experiment earlier in the year and alongside portrait club (which IS running this week) the have become a real weekly highlight. We have a huge...
2021-12-20 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Our portrait photo-set this month shows the many faces of Ines - it is a playful, expressive and sometimes horrifying set of expressions to inspire and delight. Ines was featured as one of the key models in Laura Ryan's Lemonade photo sets, so if you're keen to make more pictures of her, just follow the links below!
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Hello lovely patrons,
If you're new here, welcome! If you're a seasoned Draw supporter, thank you so much for sticking with us and helping to keep the community strong. It's been a while since I've sent an update so I thought I'd pop you a message to say hi and to update you on our plans here at Draw, so here's a run down of what we're planning this month. As always, thank you so much for...
2021-12-16 13:06:12 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video, Lancelot Richardson demonstrates the exercises from Week 12 of our Tutored Life Drawing Course, which looks at drawing on midtone paper. To get the most out of this demonstration, we'd suggest watching the tutorial video first.
>> Read the Week 12: Midtone Paper blog post 2021-12-15 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 15th Dec 2021. 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...
2021-12-14 13:36:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Our life drawing photo-set this month features the incredible Françoise. Françoise is a performance artist, contortionist and life model whose creative practice focuses around the body. She has written eloquently for the Draw Journal about her own attitudes to modelling and holds th...
2021-12-10 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video, Lancelot Richardson demonstrates the exercises from Week 11 of our Tutored Life Drawing Course, which looks at subtractive tone. To get the most out of this demonstration, we'd suggest watching the tutorial video first.
>> Read the Week 11: Subtractive Tone blog post 2021-12-08 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 6th dec 2021. 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...
2021-12-07 18:04:54 +0000 UTC View Post
This month our all-supporter photo set is from the wonderful Katie (aka KatieBrightonModel), including three rotations for all of you sculptors out there. Happy drawing!
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In this video, Lancelot Richardson demonstrates the exercises from Week 10 of our Tutored Life Drawing Course, which looks at tonal edges. To get the most out of this demonstration, we'd suggest watching the tutorial video first.
>> Read the Week 10: Tonal Edges blog post 2021-12-01 11:54:51 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 29th Nov 2021. 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...
2021-11-30 12:22:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Adrian brings a clockwork orange edge to this clothed photo set, including a range of dressing poses. Don't forget, you can always crop these clothed sets down to portrait or hand details, as well as using them as pose-inspiration for informing illustrations of other subjects. Enjoy!
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In this video, Lancelot Richardson demonstrates the exercises from Week 09 of our Tutored Life Drawing Course, which looks at tonal shapes. To get the most out of this demonstration, we'd suggest watching the tutorial video first.
>> Read the Week 09: Tonal Shape blog post 2021-11-24 11:49:41 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 22nd Nov 2021. 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...
2021-11-23 18:45:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Françoise is one of the most recent models to join us here on the Patreon, posing for an amazing set of contortion themed life poses at our summer photoshoot. In this portrait set Françoise, and our photographer Olly, explored some playful hair poses, and showcased Françoise's split tongue in one of the three rotation poses. As always, we can't wait to see what you make, inspired by the pict...
2021-11-19 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video, Lancelot Richardson demonstrates the exercises from Week 08 of our Tutored Life Drawing Course - tonal value. To get the most out of this demonstration, we'd suggest watching the tutorial video first.
>> Read the Week 08: Tonal Value blog post 2021-11-17 11:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
In this blog post we're looking at artists who work in Ink and Wash, accommodating a little watercolour in that definition. These weekly posts, which accompany our existing 34-week tutored life drawing course of blogs and videos, are intended to point you towards artists that you might not have encountered and to remind you of artists you might have forgotten about. As always, selecting only th...
2021-11-17 08:49:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 15th Nov 2021. 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...
2021-11-16 22:24:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Mat is our life model this week, a stalwart of the life drawing session here in Brighton pre-pandemic Mat started modelling after getting taking up drawing and is well known for bring ing a variety of props to his sessions. In these reference photos he is making good use of two of those props - the magnifying glass and baseball bat. As well as life drawing reference the images are conjuri...
2021-11-12 11:44:25 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video, Lancelot Richardson demonstrates the exercises from Week 06 of our Tutored Life Drawing Course - focusing on ink and wash. To get the most out of this demonstration, we'd suggest watching the tutorial video first.
>> Read the Week 07: Ink & Wash blog post 2021-11-10 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 8th Nov 2021. 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...
2021-11-09 14:54:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Now, it's been a challenge to pick 3 artists for cross-hatching inspiration this week. While great historical printmakers like Kathë Kollovitz or Rembrandt Van Rijn are obvious choices they will be included in other posts, so here are our three inspirational picks for this week (although I haven't included Rembrandt, if you can get a hold of 2021-11-07 09:12:57 +0000 UTC View Post
It has been a while since we've shared a Drawing Circus photo set - being unable to tour for the past two years means we have a dwindling collection of pictures to share. As the clocks went back I was reminded that it has been 13 years since our first large scale themed event - Drawing Cards from the Deck, a ...
2021-11-05 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video, Lancelot Richardson demonstrates the exercises from Week 06 of our Tutored Life Drawing Course - focusing on cross hatching. To get the most out of this demonstration, we'd suggest watching the tutorial video first.
The blog posts in the 34-week tutored life drawing course are available to all suppo...
2021-11-03 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 1st Nov 2021. 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...
2021-11-02 12:59:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Continuing the tonal theme of last week we turn our attention to hatching as an efficient method of adding tone to a drawing - be it horizontal, vertical or diagonal; consistent or shifting in angle. These inspirations blogs, which accompany our existing 34-week tutored life drawing course of blogs and videos, are intended to point you towards artists that you might not have encountered and to ...
2021-10-31 14:06:32 +0000 UTC View Post
“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else, another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
- Samuel Beckett
What is a cursed image, and what latent power can the collection of pixels in a digital image contain? Cur...
2021-10-30 09:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video, Lancelot Richardson demonstrates the exercises from Week 05 of our Tutored Life Drawing Course, all focused on hatching. To get the most out of this demonstration, we'd suggest watching the tutorial video first.
>> Read the Week 05: Hatching blog post 2021-10-28 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 25th Oct 2021. 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...
2021-10-26 19:35:56 +0000 UTC View Post