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 f...
2020-10-30 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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 cours...
2020-10-28 15:38:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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 approa...
2020-10-26 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Felix, AKA Captain Clement of pirate band The Captain's Beard has been a regular Draw model for the best part of 8 years...
2020-10-23 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2020-10-21 15:09:25 +0000 UTC View Post
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 s...
2020-10-19 09:04:49 +0000 UTC View Post
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 eng...
2020-10-16 20:06:36 +0000 UTC View Post
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 int...
2020-10-14 15:45:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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, a...
2020-10-12 08:58:53 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2020-10-09 08:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2020-10-07 16:13:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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 othe...
2020-10-05 08:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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 can...
2020-10-02 11:54:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2020-10-02 10:42:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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 act...
2020-09-30 15:57:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
... 2020-09-28 08:09:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2020-09-25 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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 s...
2020-09-25 08:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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, putt...
2020-09-23 15:34:29 +0000 UTC View Post
We briefly explored contour drawing in our lesson Introduction to Life Drawing and t...
2020-09-21 08:25:23 +0000 UTC View Post
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
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...
2020-09-16 18:47:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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 sup...
2020-09-14 08:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2020-09-11 08:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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; alongs...
2020-09-04 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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 i...
2020-09-04 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostDear 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 forw...
2020-08-31 09:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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 week...
2020-08-28 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2020-08-28 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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 illus...
2020-08-26 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post