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Clothed Photo-set: Ellie L.
Ellie Lopez has been modelling and drawing at Draw since 2017 - I first met Ellie during her freshers week when she came to sit for a free portrait at Cass Art - the first of many drawings! She has since modelled as a clown and a forest spirit in our respective 2018 & 2019 Drawing Circus events and ...
Tutored Life Drawing Week 07: Ink & Wash
Welcome to week seven of our tutored life drawing sessions, focusing on ink and wash - this video is a recording of the live webinar aired on the 28th October 2020. 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 ...
Tutored Life Drawing Blog Week 07: Ink & Wash
Ink is a versatile medium that can applied to the page with a brush for a more painterly application to the linear approaches we have previously explored. This lesson introduces the materials of ink and wash drawing, alongside some possible approaches.Ink and wash lends itself to both quick and long...
Life Photo-set: Felix
Felix, AKA Captain Clement of pirate band The Captain's Beard has been a regular Draw model for the best part of 8 years, touring with and writing music for the Drawchestra and causing general mayhem wherever he goes. To give an insight into Felix's personality, this was his preferred cover ...
Tutored Life Drawing Week 06: Cross Hatching
Welcome to week six of our tutored life drawing sessions. This video is a recording of the live webinar aired on the 21st October 2020. 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 onlin...
Tutored Life Drawing Blog Week 06: Cross Hatching
Cross hatching is a method of creating patterns of repeated marks that overlap each other. At its simplest, this involves creating layers of lines at different angles to make the tone darker, though there are many different techniques, media and stylistic choices. This lesson will focus on using dip...
Portrait Photo-set: Immie
Immie started modelling at Draw last year and proved an absolute natural - her own experience life drawing and studies giving her a great insight into what makes an engaging pose. She's currently studying illustration at Kingston uni.Apologies for the delay posting - I got my 9am and 9pm mixedBe...
Tutored Life Drawing Week 05: Hatching
Welcome to week five of our tutored life drawing sessions! This video is a recording of the live webinar aired on the 14th October 2020. 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 onli...
Tutored Life Drawing Blog Week 05: Hatching
To co-incide with Inktober we're combining our blogs on tonal markmaking with inky media - this week we'll be looking at hatching in fine liner pens. Fine liners provide a cheap, accessible introduction to ink, creating lines of consistent thickness, and are effective for detailed work. They...
Life Photo-set: Frankie
Frankie is the longest serving model at Draw - she is co-founder of the Drawing Circus and modelled for some of the first sessions here at New England House in 2009, when we were know as The Brighton Life Drawing Sessions. Over those years Frankie's knee length tresses have grown to being taller...
Tutored Life Drawing Week 04: Tone
Welcome to week four of our tutored life drawing sessions! This video is a recording of the live webinar aired on the 7th October 2020. 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 onlin...
Tutored Life Drawing Blog Week 04: Tone
Tone refers to variations in light and dark - both observed in a subject, or in the marks of your drawing. When drawing tonally, we could be expressing a range of ideas. We often think of tonal values, the light and dark we observe, but other possibilities for using tone include creating sculptural ...
Drawing Circus Photo-set: The Rise
In the old world, we would test out our new drawing shows at the Brighton Fringe before the extravagant national tours of the summer and autumn; we found a fitting venue in the form of the Bosco Theatre, a century-old Dutch circus tent, with a canvas roof, wooden walls and a high painted facade that...
Portrait Photo-set: Carole
I first met Carole about 8 years ago when she was running hen party life drawing classes for RAM - since then she has become an incredibly special part of Draw, as a life model, Wednesday night Life Drawing regular and the face behind the leonine mask of Kitty, the Drawing Circus lion.Todays photose...
Tutored Life Drawing Week 03: Negative Space
Welcome to week three, focusing on Negative Space! This video is a recording of the live webinar aired on the 30th September, 2020. 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 li...
Tutored Life Drawing Blog Week 03: Negative Space
Negative space is a useful visual idea for our drawing, and understanding it helps us flatten out what we see and translate it onto paper. This allows us to tackle otherwise challenging subjects, such as complex shapes, or foreshortened forms.This week we will be looking at what negative space is, a...
Clothed Photo-set: Virgile
Todays clothed pose set is from our favourite Parisian, Virgile Demoustier. Virgile is a painter and recently graduated from Brighton University - he is currently off in Europe, running The Drawing Sesh online drawing sessions with his partner in love and art Karolina Maciejak.Enjoy!Jake--Guidelines...
Life Photo-set: Beth
Beth has been modelling at Draw for almost exactly 6 years - she is best known for regularly heckling drawing tutors and the dramatic pose-sequence that told the tragic story of the theft of her beloved bicycle in 2018. When she's not life modelling Beth is and actor & stand-up comedian and was ...
Tutored Life Drawing Week 02: Contour
Welcome to week two of the tutored life drawing course, focusing on contour! This video is a recording of the live webinar aired on the 23rd September, 2020. 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 pho...
Tutored Life Drawing Blog 02: Contour
We briefly explored contour drawing in our lesson Introduction to Life Drawing and this week we'll be going into a little more depth. Contour plays an important role by translating a number of different things that we can see as edges into an understandable line drawing. It is often mistaken for...
Portrait Photo-set: Bruno
Bruno had only been modelling at Draw for a few months when the pandemic got into full swing. At the few life classes he posed for he proved himself a dedicated life model while at the Draw Christmas party he proved that he danced an excellent time warp; we're super pleased that he could model f...
Tutored Life Drawing Week 01: Introduction
Welcome to the first video in our tutored life drawing course, led by Lancelot Richardson! This video is a recording of the live webinar which you can watch as a one-off, or watch in order with the rest of the course. We recommend putting all of the exercises into practice by drawing from our refere...
Tutored Life Drawing Blog 01: Introduction to Life Drawing
Welcome to the first of our Draw online tutored life drawing course blogs. This blog is free and publicly available, so feel free to share it with anybody who might be keen to read it. All other blogs in the series are available to our Patreon supporters on all tiers. They are suitable for all abili...
Life Photo-set: Charlie
Charlie had been modelling at Draw for less than a year before Covid-19 closed our studio - Charlie's expressive and challenging poses are always a pleasure to draw, so it was wonderful to be able to have them pose for this set of reference photos. If you're a sculptor and keen to get some 3...
Portrait Photo-set: Priss
Priss Nash has been a life model at Draw for several years and has (in various wigs and headpieces) been a showgirl and forest spirit in various Drawing Circuses; alongside her life modelling she is a poet and a singer in the Brighton band Tanzanite. This photo-set is one of the first from our new r...
Drawing Circus / Clothed Poses Photo-set: Naomi
As I've had lots of requests for Naomi Wood's aerial poses on here we are publishing her set of mid-air reference images as this months Drawing Circus post. Usually we'd include tableau images, but as you have a huge archive to work through if figured you'd be ok. For some inspiratio...
New navigation tool, September classes and our future plans (plus a thank you!)
Dear supporters,As the summer draws to a close I can't thank you all enough for continuing to stick with us - your support has allowed us to support our models and tutors with ongoing work and to prepare for the years ahead. As we move forward into an uncertain autumn and winter the safety of th...
Life Photo-set: Gracie
Gracie is back! She was the first model for our all-tiers photoset at the start of lockdown and as we run to the end of the photos commissioned in the first weeks of the pandemic we thought we'd release some of the other photos from that shoot.Stay safe and keep drawing,Jake--Guidelines for usin...
Clothed Photo-set: Laura
As we head towards the end of the summer we thought we'd finish August on some photos that evoke sunny days. Laura's clothed photo set precede Gracie's life photoset, which will be released later today.As a bonus, we're making this photoset available for all supporters to accompany t...
Drawing from Home: The Clothed Figure
Clothing and costume are a common challenge we encounter in our drawing, especially outside of the liferoom! It is useful to have some confidence with drawing clothing, as it inevitably pops up with human subjects, such as in portraiture and illustration. Building on last weeks focus on drapery we b...
