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Introduction to: Conté Crayon
In this video and blog post Lancelot Richardson will run through some of the most important qualities of Conté Crayon. You can use the videos for reference, skipping forward using the time stamps to find the information and demonstrations most relevant to your work - you'll find the themes pick...
Lemonade Photo-set: Helium
A huge bouquet of helium balloons contrasts with weighted, heavy limbs, there is the sense that despite this tension, our model could begin to float away, lifted by the balloons whose unique essence is the miracle of levitation.Contemporary painter Justin Mortimer paints unsettling nuclear landscape...
Portrait Recording: Gracie
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 16th 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 Zo...
Introduction to: Charcoal
In this video and blog post Lancelot Richardson will run through some of the most important qualities of charcoal. You can use the videos for reference, skipping forward using the time stamps to find the information and demonstrations most relevant to your work. You'll also find some extra mater...
Lemonade Photo-set: Gravity
In this photo set, Urte’s long hair floats upwards, offering interesting ways of presenting the back of the head and the nape of the neck, areas of the human figure that are less frequently explored in drawing. The genre of magical realism guides the essence of Gravity, the rich glossy upwards flo...
Portrait Drawing: Lance
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 9th August 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 ...
Introduction to: Graphite
Over the next four weeks we'll be sharing a new series of material introduction videos, focusing on graphite, charcoal, conte crayon and water-soluble drawing media. You can use these videos for reference, skipping forward using the time stamps to find the information and demonstrations most rel...
August 2021: Coming up on Patreon this month!
Hello lovely patrons! I'm going to start posting a monthly update to give you an idea of what to expect from the Draw Patreon as well as an overview of how we spend the money you pledge each month. In addition to the usual programme of live, online sessions here's what to expect this month:-...
Lemonade Photo-set: Unboxing
This photo set explores themes of presence, memory, place, storing memories, object permanence and the passing of time. Our model Mark flows through a series of repetitive interactions with cardboard boxes, actions characterised by their bizarre nature - this is a surreal and dreamlike set of photo ...
Lemonade Photo-set: Summoning
In Summoning, modelled by Priss, our character interacts with a floating transparent orb, this dreamlike scene is shifting and strange. I was drawn to this painting by Michael Borremans and the possibility in art for characters to have traits of levitation, telepathy or telekinesis. It is a photo se...
Portrait Drawing: Catherine
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 19th July 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 Z...
Out & About
I take a sketch book everywhere I go and always begin a weekend-off with great intentions, but without the (joyful!) pressure of a posing person to draw I struggle to find my focus. Baffled by the immense possibility of the landscape as a subject, more often than not I return from a long drawing-wal...
Lemonade Photo-set: Smudge (Ellie)
This second 'Smudge' photoset contains a simple series of sequential hand/face interactions - our model Ellie gazes fixedly at he viewer, her fingers smudging lipstick down her face, pulling her lower lip down and stretching the skin. This unconventional and surprising portrait reference off...
Figure Drawing Launch (Wed 21st July)
Hello all,I'll be launching my new book tomorrow (see more details about the book here) and I'll be holding some bonus ETC talks tomorrow as part of the launch. Over the day I'll be speaking live to three different artists about their relationship to figure drawing - they are free online...
Portrait Drawing: Laura
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 19th July 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 Z...
Drawing Demo: 30 Minute Life Drawing
In this drawing demonstration Lance shares an approach to drawing a 30-minute portrait in conte pencil. Tis demo will be ideal to watch if you're coming to the Wednesday daytime life classes, which involve a 30-minute full-figure pose and could be applied to a 20-minute poses. Feel free to dip i...
Lemonade Photo-set: Abstract
These abstracted references are perfect for making loose gestural drawings from, rich textured watercolour splodges will work well in the shadows, and inky painterly marks and drips to describe the pose. The contrasting light and dark forms appear and emerge through abstract shapes, a landscape of b...
Portrait Drawing: Jake
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 12th July 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 Z...
Drawing Demo: 10 Minute Portraits
In this weeks drawing demo Lance shares his preferred approach to drawing a 10-minute portrait in pencil - these are ideal to watch if you're coming to the Wednesday evening life classes, which involve a 10-minute portrait pose, or if you're planning to come to Thursday night Portrait Club! ...
Lemonade Photo-set: Smudge (Ines)
This photo set, in which Ines is pictured smudging her lipstick, eyes gazing fixedly at the camera, seeks to answer the question: What makes for an interesting portrait?The squashing and pulling of skin and facial features, the tension between fingers, pulled down lips and facial features, adds just...
Portrait Drawing: Ellie L.
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 5th July 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 Zo...
Drawing Demos: Life Drawing (Short Poses)
This summer we're upgrading our recording kit and taking the opportunity to improve our video editing skills in time for launching an expanded set of tutored life drawing demonstrations in September. In response to your requests, we'll be sharing a new recording from Lance each week to show ...
Lemonade Photo-set: Float
A huge bouquet of helium balloons brings a surreal and dreamlike essence to the scenes in this photo set - it's almost as if Priss is about to become weightless and float away. Perhaps she is already levitating and it is only us that can perceive the floor. High-contrast lighting presents a chal...
Coming up on the Patreon this month
In this post you'll find a run down of everything we'll be releasing this month, but first I wanted to share some really exciting news! This month I'm going to be releasing a book that I have been working on for over 2 years. It is called Figure Drawing and is the most comprehensive book...
Portrait Recording: Virgile
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 28th June 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 Z...
Developing Creative Practice Pt. 3: Drawing from Movies
In this third instalment of Laura Ryan's three-part mini-series Laura will be looking at drawing from movies. This is a topic briefly touched upon by Lance in this earlier blog post; if you're ever stuck feeling creatively bereft just hop onto the Draw Navigator and take your pick of our sho...
Lemonade Photo-set: Possessed
These incredibly gestural and varied poses, informed by the notion of possession, will be great subjects for timed, gestural drawings as well as longer and more detailed studies. The idea of a force or spirit (which is supernatural or other) taking over our physical body is both enthralling and terr...
Portrait Recording: Mat
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 21st June 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 Z...
Developing Creative Practice Pt.2: Five Creative Strategies
In this article, I'll be proposing five approaches that I use to help me explore, play and re-focus. These creative strategies are methods, exercises and good habits which help me to be efficient as well as adventurous in my creative practice and they are all things you can try yourself to stimu...
Lemonade Photo-set: Ritual
This atmospheric photo set explores themes of mysticism and ritualistic folk lore and was the photo set I most enjoyed directing - it’s not every day that you get to put together such a strange scene. In this set my philosophical and literary interests in greek tragedy and the ceremonial death rit...
