Welcome to week twenty-five of our tutored life drawing sessions. This video is a recording of the live webinar aired on 24th March 2021. 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 of the details on the Draw Patreon Navigator 2021-03-24 14:46:33 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 22nd March 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...
2021-03-22 21:42:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The torso presents the largest mass of any area of the body both visually and physically, forming the core of a figure's gesture. It links up all other elements of the body, connecting to the head and limbs. The torso can show a lot of individual variation, with many factors affecting the visibility and appearance of different bone, muscle and soft tissue features.
One of the most immedia...
2021-03-22 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In this first photo-set accompanying our Tutored Life Drawing course we have selected 150 close-up examples of the neck and shoulders from our photo library, demonstrating how the junction between the head and the torso looks from different angles and how the common anatomical forms of the bod...
2021-03-21 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHello you lovely lot,
We have hit an exciting new milestone, reaching £7000 support from our community today! When we started this Patreon a year ago we never could have imagined that you would all be so supportive and as a thank you to all of your for your ongoing support we're adding the following perks to the Patreon:
For Supporter & Portrait Tiers: A ...
2021-03-21 13:41:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Anna modelled for Draw several times during a three-year philosophy degree at Sussex uni, posing as a Drawing Circus forest spirit and life modelling at the Draw studio. If you're a coloured pencil enthusiast you might also recognise Anna from the Derwent lightfast publicity campaign, where the film crew set me ...
2021-03-19 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to week twenty-four of our tutored life drawing sessions. This video is a recording of the live webinar aired on 17th March 2021. 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 of the details on the Draw Patreon Navigator 2021-03-17 15:49:53 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 15th March 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...
2021-03-15 22:05:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The neck and shoulders connect the head and torso to form an area of the body that often isn't focused on. However, there is a lot of motion here, as the head has a wide range of movement through the neck, and the shoulders allow the same of the arms.
This lesson looks at some observations about the shape and form of the neck and shoulders, as well as some more prominent anatomical featur...
2021-03-15 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Our beloved Beth, queen of the exaggerated facial expression, is the subject of our portrait photo-set this week. Beth's education at clown school was tragically cut short last year (this is not a set up for a joke - Beth was training at École Ph...
2021-03-12 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to week twenty-three of our tutored life drawing sessions. This video is a recording of the live webinar aired on 10th March 2021. 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 of the details on the Draw Patreon Navigator 2021-03-10 21:53:12 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 8th March 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 ...
2021-03-08 23:53:53 +0000 UTC View Post
The head is an important part of the full body figure drawing, often leading a gesture and being a major element of the model's likeness. Understanding the head is also important for portraiture. Compared to the limbs and torso, the head has less soft tissue, and its bulk comes from the skull. This means that its forms are quite rigid and the most significant changes come from tilting and turni...
2021-03-08 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The word “selfie” was named The Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year in 2013. The popularity of selfie culture highlights a compelling human desire to create a visual likeness of ourselves. Our easy access to cheap camera phones and fast internet has created a frenzied culture of taking and sharing selfies on social media. ...
2021-03-07 11:45:00 +0000 UTC View Post
When we employ a photographer to come to our Drawing Circus events, it is not just to record the day but to explore the happenings through the lens of their own creative practice. That was never more true than when Michaela Meadow came to shoot the Prologue Drawing Circus at the Old Market, shooting colour photos on an old film camera and digitally edited some of them into black and wh...
2021-03-05 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to week twenty-two of our tutored life drawing sessions. This video is a recording of the live webinar aired on 3rd March 2021. 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 of the details on the Draw Patreon Navigator 2021-03-03 14:44:45 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 1st March 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 ...
2021-03-02 08:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Anatomy is a large component of learning to draw the human figure. It provides an understanding of the human body, and in drawing, allows the artist to connect knowledge to observation. Whilst anatomy is, at its core, the scientific study of the human body, when connected to art, it branches out to ideas about observation, three dimensional structure, and other properties that can be conveyed i...
2021-03-01 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
“In the realm of the visible all epochs coexist and are fraternal, whether separated by centuries or millennia. And when the painted image is not a copy but the result of a dialogue, the painted thing speaks if we listen.”
- John Berger, The Shape of a Pocket
Where is painting now and how do we see things different...
2021-02-28 10:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In our fourth interview exploring the personal stories of artists we talk to Chris Riddell OBE about his career as an illustrator. The illustrated interview, recorded on the 26th Feb 2021, focuses on Chris’s life, education and work as an author, illustrator & political cartoonist.
Chris Riddell, OBE is an award...
2021-02-27 09:58:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Katie, AKA @KatieBrightonModel is a creative powerhouse, as anybody who has attended any of her theatrical moving pose sessions will attest. Katie has been modelling at Draw for 5 years now and has been Alice in our Lewis Carrol themed Drawing Circus set and a Dryad in the Sleep of Reason. She'll be mode...
2021-02-26 10:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hopefully Frankie needs no introduction - the longest standing Draw life model and ringmistress of the Drawing Circus Frankie used to run our life model residency sessions and leads the Draw Model Enrichment programme. For a more animated accompaniment to this portrait set, take a look back at Frankie's recent portrait sitting and interview 2021-02-26 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to week twenty-one of our tutored life drawing sessions. This video is a recording of the live webinar aired on 24th February 2021. 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 of the details on the Draw Patreon Navigator 2021-02-24 20:36:49 +0000 UTC View Post
In our fourth interview exploring the personal stories of artists we will be speaking Chris Riddell, OBE about his career as an illustrator - here's a short interview from Waterstones of Chris chatting author Neil Gaiman. Half of our interview will focus on Chris’s life, education and work as an author, illustrator and political cartoonist and half of the interview will be dedicated to your q...
2021-02-23 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 22nd February 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 loca...
2021-02-22 21:52:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Depth is a property that can allow drawings to convey a sense of three dimensional space around the figure. The are many different drawing devices that do this, and there are different systems of perspective to visualise depth. These tools can also open up avenues to manipulate space for expressive purposes.
This lesson introduces ideas about depth and perspective from a practical stand p...
2021-02-22 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In my last article I dealt with the experience of painting in the presence of the subject. Here, I want to focus on painting which is based on imagination - which translates space into a stage to support the subject. Like before, it’s a slippy topic, and the examples I give are ones which are perti...
2021-02-21 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Today on the Patreon we are releasing photos of everybody's favourite Parisian, Virgile! Virgile is a painter and was a regular model and student at Draw while he was studying at Brighton University, he has since moved to Brussels and has been running dynamic and playful Zoom drawing sessions with his partner Karoli...
2021-02-19 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to week twenty of our tutored life drawing sessions. This video is a recording of the live webinar aired on 17th February 2021. 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 of the details on the Draw Patreon Navigator 2021-02-17 15:43:07 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 15th February 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, unlike our tutored sessions which are recorded locally and undergo more rigorous process...
2021-02-15 23:54:10 +0000 UTC View Post