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Drawing Challenge: June 2025
I know I'm technically not here for June, but I couldn't leave you without a good old drawing challenge for June! The Drawing Challenge is usually only open to member Pencil Tier and above. But for this month, I am opening it to ALL members! If you would like to have some feedback on your dr...
Drawing Challenge Feedback
Draw over feedback for our Mermay themed Drawing Challenge! Thank you to Bill, Claire and Lawrence for sharing their interpretations of the reference. We will definitely need to do another Drawing Challenge in the future where we are using our imagination to project a character onto the model! Check...
Updates
Hey sketchers!Did you know that May 2025 marked the 2 year anniversary of this Patreon?! 🥳I can’t believe it has been 2 full years already.I started this as a way to share my knowledge of gesture drawing. There are lots of great figure drawing tutorials out there, but it was difficult to find d...
How to Draw: The Skull
To be honest with you all (I feel that we have that kind of relationship now) I don't really draw the skull! Sometimes I have to teach it at the College but it's not something I've spent a lot of time with.However, true to form, when I take the time to sit down with these things in an e...
Realtime Video: Mermaids 🧜🏽♀️
The theme continues for MerMay! This will be the last themed video... so for those of you who are sick of mermaids - this is the end! Hahaha!In this video I'm drawing from a mixed mermaid pack from Studio Grafit - I think it was a promo pack, so it had a variety of models and settings.I begin th...
Mermaids!
In preparation for the tutorial on How To Draw Mermaids (now available to Conté Tier!) I curled up with my cat Frank and a good movie to warm up and practice drawing mermaids again. It took a while to get into the flow of it again. It's been a few weeks since my last life drawing class. It'...
How to Draw: Mermaids 🧜🏽♀️
Mermay is well and truly underway and it's time for us to explore some mermaids in our gesture drawing practice.Finding the perfect reference for drawing mermaid gestures can be tricky, because we know how notorious they are for not letting humans take their photograph! But in this video, I will...
Upcoming Tutorial: How to Draw the Skull
Happy Saturday sketchers!I had planned to go to a local Urban Sketchers meetup today but as always in this city, it rains and it storms and we can’t do anything outside when we plan for it! But that’s ok, because that allows me to spend more time making tutorials for you! Still to come this week...
Model Pack Vote!
I feel like we have been drawing LOTS of females recently, so this vote is for THE BOYS!Do you have a preference for drawing male or female models?From what I've observed in my classes, artists tend to find the female form easier to draw, somehow it just clicks easier with the flowing lines than...
Realtime Gestures - Kimono
It's been a long wait for you to see this realtime video!The last vote we had was way back in March, and then I took a break throughout April, but we are finally back with the Vote Winner from March - Mitsuru in a Kimono.This was actually very difficult reference to draw from. Due to the limitat...
Drawing Challenge: May 2025
New month - new Drawing Challenge!And I'm sure you have noticed that it is not just any old month... it's MerMay!What is MerMay?MerMay is a month-long art challenge where artists create a mermaid drawing each day in May and share it online with the hashtag #mermay. Hosted by the lovely Laure...
Calendar: May
Coming up in the month of May - all things mermaid and more!MerMay is upon us and it's always super fun for me to draw mermaid-y things inside of gesture drawing. This month on Patreon:Week One:Realtime Gesture - vote winner from March - GeishaMay Drawing ChallengeWeek Two:Tutorials: How to Draw...
Life Drawing Sketches
How lucky am I? That same model I told you about in the previous post modelled AGAIN at the drop in life drawing class. I was able to attend and give my full attention to drawing her poses, without having to teach! This session was a range of 1min, 3 mins, 5 mins, 10 mins, 15 mins and one 35 min. Of...
New Model from Class
Hey everyone! Thought I would share some of my gestures from this morning’s life drawing class. I like to warm up with a few gestures at the same time as my students, cause I have also not drawn much in the few days before class. Today we had a model that I have never drawn before! We have both be...
Taking a Break for April
Hey sketchers!I wanted to share an update for the month of April: I'll be pausing membership payments until May 1st.This month is going to be a busy one for me, as I'm wrapping up some big projects—my school semester, Yoga Teacher Training, and an Illustrated Book project. To ensure I can ...
Drawing Challenge Feedback: March
This month's Drawing Challenge featured Dria from The Dynamic Muse. I choose this reference because I was in an Egon Schiele mood and wanted to let you lot try your hand at drawing a thin figure and possibly play with pushing the anatomy and style of Schiele. This was my version of the reference...
March PDF Download
Another month of Gesture Drawings to share with you! The main gestures I looked at this month were the Egon Schiele inspired realtime gestures and the Cartoon Casual Pack. Lots of female models! I will try to draw more male figures next time :/ Download the PDF below!Gillian
How to Draw: Skeleton 101
When it comes to gesture drawing, understanding the skeleton is like levelling up to dynamic, appealing, believable drawings. It serves as the foundation for every pose, movement and expression we want to capture from the model. In this video we will explore why artists of all levels can benefit fro...
⚡️ New Tutorial: Skeleton 101⚡️
All the essential things you need to know to start understanding and drawing the skeleton in your gesture drawing! Available NOW on Conté Tier + Sketchbook Tier.Understand the placement and motion of the skeleton:How to use key skeleton concepts for drawing any body type:
Throwback Thursday: How to Draw from your Imagination!
Probably one of the top goals for most artists who support this Patreon, is the the ability to draw anything they want from their imagination!In this Throwback Thursday video, we are looking back at How to Draw from you Imagination!----------If you are (or aspire to be) an animator, character design...
How to Draw: Extreme Perspective
Being able to draw extreme perspective - or any perspective for the matter - allows us to have a lot of fun creating and pushing poses to be more dramatic, cinematic, impactful. When poses have extreme perspectives, the 'camera' needs to be very close to the subject, creating an feeling of i...
Realtime Gestures: Schiele Inspired
This was a super fun session to draw!You may have noticed that a few weeks ago I made an Artist Study video looking at the work of Austrian artist, Egon Schiele. He has been one of my favourite artists since I learned about him at Art School. I was so happy to finally make a dedicated Artist Study v...
Realtime Gesture Video: Cartoon Casual Poses
Our vote winner for February was Cartoon Casual Pose Packfrom Studio Grafit.This is the pack that I am drawing from in today's Realtime Gesture video! Draw along with me or just watch me do my thing for tips and tricks on how to improve your gesture drawing. This pack gave me lots of opportunity...
Egon Schiele Inspired Gestures
Coming next week! A realtime video where I explore the style of Egon Schiele in my own gesture practice with model Dria from Dynamic Muse. Available to all paid members next week.Are you familiar with this artist? What do you think of his work? Gillian
Drawing Challenge: March
New month, new Drawing Club Challenge!!!If you are a member of the Conté Tier, you might have seen my recent artist study of Austrian Artist Egon Schiele. I wanted to give youthe opportunity to try you hand at some Egon Schiele inspired anatomy and poses - but you don't have to draw it in his s...
Drawing Challenge Feedback: February
Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's Drawing Challenge.It was not an easy one and you all did very unique, unexpected things with it. Check out the video for full feedback!Stay tuned for the March Drawing Challenge coming soon!
PDF Download: February
Another month gone by and another PDF download!Download all the drawings that I created for you in the PDF below. This month I drew:Pin Up ModelFunny ManSchiele Inspired GesturesStay tuned for what is coming up in March!Gillian
Sneak Peek: Egon Schiele Artist Study
Join members of the Conté Tier as we explore the art style of Egon Schiele!Learn how I used the study of some of his iconic artworks to draw these:Gillian
Artist Study: Egon Schiele
Yey! We are finally back to another Artist Study!And I have been wanted to look at this artist's work since I started this Patreon! I was recently talking about him with my students and it got me excited again to look more deeply at his work. What is an artist study?If you are new to this Patreo...
Principles of Animation: Secondary Action
12 Principles of Animation SeriesAn essential technique used in animation but how can we use it for our gesture drawing practice and also our creative projects outside of gesture?A Secondary Action is an additional movement that complements the main action. Like when we walk our arms may swing at ou...
