In this inspiration blog, we're looking at artists who explore extremes of light and dark in their work. 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 remind you of artists you might have forgotten about. Here three of our tonal favourites!
Ines has been life modelling and drawing at Draw for three years - every time she comes to pose here presents a new surprise, from the time when she turned up to a long pose painted green from head-to-toe and posed as a bog fairy to the first online life modelling session she posed for, when she arrived with dozens of pairs of googley eyes stuck all over her body. In this clothed photoset Ines ...
2021-10-22 21:48:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video, Lancelot Richardson demonstrates the exercises from Week 04 of our Tutored Life Drawing Course - an introduction to tone. To get the most out of this demonstration, we'd suggest watching the tutorial video first.
>> Read the Week 04: Tone blog post 2021-10-20 13:58:17 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 18th 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...
2021-10-19 07:05:42 +0000 UTC View PostIn this new series of weekly posts for all supporters we'll be showcasing artwork by historical and contemporary artists that relate to our weekly life drawing topic. These short snippets support the Tutored Life Drawing Course that we are re-visiting and can be read in the context of the course, or treated as inspirational sign posts to artists of interest. In this blog we'll be looking at con...
2021-10-17 15:25:57 +0000 UTC View Post
We'll be releasing some occasional life photo-sets on the weekends, intended to help you practice the exercises described in Lance's Tutored Life Drawing videos and blogs. In this set we've picked out poses that demonstrate negative space to help you become more sensitive to the shapes that surround the subject you're drawing. You might also find Mark and Laura 's 2021-10-17 09:06:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Despite knowing of Adrian for years through fellow artists and tutors it wasn't until a year ago that we had the opperutunity to work with him at one of our Zoom life class. The verve that Adrian bought to his wonderfully composed and considered virtual poses fixed him as a firm favourite of our online drawers, so it's great to be able to be able to include him in our photo-reference here on Pa...
2021-10-15 12:20:24 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video, Lancelot Richardson demonstrates the exercises from Week 03 of our Tutored Life Drawing Course, with a focus on negative space. To get the most out of this demonstration, we'd suggest watching the tutorial video first.
>> Read the Week 03: Negative Space blog post 2021-10-13 10:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 11th 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...
2021-10-12 09:34:37 +0000 UTC View Post
In this particularly energetic clothed photo-set, actor and musician Sophie presents us with poses worthy of their own graphic novel!
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Manko, co-founder of the Art Model Collective, is one of the UK's most celebrated and experienced life models, having worked at almost all of London's prodigious art schools over her 22-year life modelling career. She regularly features as the subject of prize winning portraits and figure paintings across the capital and kindly took the trip down to Brighton to model for this photo-set fo...
2021-10-08 09:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video, Lancelot Richardson demonstrates the exercises from Week 02 of our Tutored Life Drawing Course, with a focus on line and contour. To get the most out of this demonstration, we'd suggest watching the tutorial video first.
>> Read the Week 02: Contour blog post 2021-10-06 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 4th 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 an...
2021-10-04 21:04:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Over the summer we've been sharing reference photos from the Lemonade photo-shoot, directed by Laura Ryan. Those photos are available for you to access as inspiration for your own personal projects and will be part of our pose-libabry indefinatly. You're always welcome to move up a tier to access more of the photos and move down again in future months - each contribution here on the Pa...
2021-10-01 14:51:40 +0000 UTC View Post
To accompany our Tutored Life Drawing Course Lancelot Richardson has been recording further demonstrations of the exercises described in the course to give you an insight into the processes and to help you practice. We'll be releasing a new demonstration video every week - to get the most out of the demo video...
2021-09-29 10:33:16 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 27th Sept 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 ...
2021-09-28 10:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We are re-launching our 34-week tutored life drawing course, starting this week! If you've been putting off watching the tutorial videos, or are on the lower tiers and thinking about upgrading to the life drawing tier, now is the perfect time to do it. The videos and blogs that make up the course are intended to compliment any in-person life classes or online zoom sessions you go to, so you can...
2021-09-27 09:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The latest Draw Journal is released today! This 48-page mini-newspaper collects together writing and artwork from the extended Draw community and is the second in our series, with the first volume available to Patreon supporters right HERE. We published the original Draw Journal in 2020 during the first UK lock...
2021-09-26 09:06:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Sofas and armchairs are our places of rest and decompression. Our physical vessels sink deep down into the soft furnishings, and we can become disembodied, through that soft, heavy feeling. Marks’ poses are characterized by inertia, our model flops and drapes himself across the armchair, comatose and passive. The minimalist and contemporary design of this photo set offers an uncluttered world...
2021-09-24 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 20th Sept 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 ...
2021-09-21 07:55:52 +0000 UTC View Post
In the photo set Mirrored, Ellie and Inez pose together in a timeless dynamic dance; their pairing is powerful, two forms in tension, bending and supporting. The lighting is silvery, ghostly, lit by a full moon, in an otherworldly night. A palette of violets, indigos, and chromatic silvery greys could be just right for rendering these expressive forms. Themes of twin relationships and ...
2021-09-17 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 13th Sept 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 ...
2021-09-14 08:13:03 +0000 UTC View Post
In this quiet and contemplative photo set, mundane acts like sitting at a table become re- contextualised through unexpected and surprising model interactions. In Pensive the imaginative realm is always full of the extraordinary, shapes and animals appear from paper folded into origami, the white blank page made less daunting. Nothing extraordinary has taken place, and Urte remains pas...
2021-09-10 09:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 6th Sept 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...
2021-09-07 00:34:11 +0000 UTC View Post
In ‘Back to Front’ we explore being back to front and inside out - playful, simple, humour-driven reference imagery which has strong graphic shapes, contrasting lights and darks, I’d recommend watercolour and ink as a starting point.
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Hello lovely patrons,
Thank you for all of your support over the last month and welcome to all of our new supporters! We'll be running our usual programme of live, online sessions in September but we're also considering adding additional Wednesday life classes to better suit our supporters in the US, New Zealand and Australia - if that is you, comment on this post if you'd have a pr...
2021-09-02 08:06:38 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 30th Aug 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...
2021-08-30 21:42:02 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video and blog post Lancelot Richardson will run through the important qualities of some of the most common water-soluble drawing media. You can use the video for reference, skipping forward with the time stamps to find the information and demonstrations most relevant to your work - you'll find the themes picked out in the video play bar. You'll also find some extra material information...
2021-08-30 09:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Shopping Bag is an an immensely drawable photoset in playful, pastel colours. In the portrait set, Tilli’s face is squished and altered by the shopping bag mesh in strange and unexpected ways, a complex thing to render which is probably more suitable for those artists with an intensely obsessive and detail driven style. Alternatively the full-figure clothed set offers great visual st...
2021-08-27 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 23rd Aug 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...
2021-08-24 07:13:00 +0000 UTC View Post