Conté crayons are a hard drawing medium made from compressed powdered pigment mixed with clay, wax and a binder, moulded into rectangular sticks. Depending on the ratio of pigment to clay, they are graded acc...
2020-04-29 08:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
( 'Pot and Soup Tureen' by Paul Cézanne)
If you're at home without a model to draw and are casting around for something to sketch, still life is ...
2020-04-26 12:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Catherine has been life modelling in Brighton longer than Draw has existed - she is a committed model and artist but also holds the (not so secret) double identity of being the happier face between the painted-on-frown of Katinka the Drawing Circu...
2020-04-24 08:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Drawing on brown paper can sometimes make drawing a little bit easier. Why? Because when we draw on white paper, we are mostly working in one direction, from light to dark. Starting with a mid-tone and working...
2020-04-22 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Mark is a musician and life model - once know for his messianic beard he now sports a clean jawline and hair that would be the envy of any 80's rock star. Like Ellie, in her recent life photo-set, he has a creative relationship with chairs. We're ...
2020-04-20 20:41:35 +0000 UTC View Post
This week on the Drawing From Home blog Lancelot is taking a look at interiors. You might feel like you've been staring at the same four walls for far too long, but drawing is not just a tool for picture making - its a way to slow down and s...
2020-04-19 08:30:43 +0000 UTC View Post
The inimitable Bassie Gracie is our portait model for this week's photo set - we have a selection of images with a full rotation of hair up and down, by request from some of you guys! 2020-04-17 08:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Most people are familiar with charcoal, it’s a great medium to draw with and also great for beginners. It’s a bit messy but very forgiving as it is easy to put on and take off again and again. I love it for its atmospheric qualities and the ra...
2020-04-14 08:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
('Rabbits on a Log' by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait)
As Easter is upon us, this week's blog will be all about rabbits and art. Rabbits have ...
2020-04-12 09:02:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Since starting at Draw in 2019, Ellie has become part of the furniture. A life model, performer, photographic model and make-up artist Ellie brings a darkly offbeat sense of humour, prodigious creativity and disarming kindness to all work at Draw....
2020-04-10 08:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Alongside Lance's Sunday posts, we're going to be sharing new mid-week blog posts from our drawing tutors. These will focus on ways to improve your life drawing from home and are specially commissioned for the Draw Patreon. Our first series of 8 p...
2020-04-08 09:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Animals are a great subject to draw, spanning a tremendous amount of variety of forms, poses, textures and colours. While you're at home, your pets are ...
2020-04-05 08:13:24 +0000 UTC View Post
The Rise and Fall of the Drawing Circus was the tale of the assent of the Drawing Circus and it's dramatic decline following the murder of a circus clown. It has been played out in many forms over our decade of events and is an allegory for the cr...
2020-04-03 09:27:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Joseph (Joe) has become increasingly involved with Draw over the past year, both as a model and as a regular attendee of our life drawing classes. From a standing start he's become one our most committed models and a dedicated student of the penci...
2020-04-03 06:43:31 +0000 UTC View Post
To accompany Friday's release of new images we thought it might be handy to have some suggestions on how to draw figures from photographs at home! Ever on the case Lance has penned just such an article. As always, feel free to tag any drawings you...
2020-03-29 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Mark is a musician and life model, working across London and Sussex - if you're on instagram you can follow his work on @marklifemodel. He created a particularly Schi...
2020-03-27 07:52:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Ellie (aka @tasteslikedust) is a life model, photographic model and make-up artist, specialising in drag and horror make up (as some of you might remember fro...
2020-03-27 07:43:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Jade is a full-time life model, artist and all round creative power house - as well as modelling all over Sussex she runs her own life classes from home, the 'Drawversity' clothed pose at Draw and last years popular Black History Month life classe...
2020-03-27 07:23:16 +0000 UTC View Post
We hope you enjoy this free photo-set, featuring Gracie and Ariane! Take a look at the terms of use below, and feel free to use download the images or use them straight from the screen as reference for your artwork. If you have any questions, feel...
2020-03-23 08:02:02 +0000 UTC View Post
To keep you busy this Sunday, Lance's new Drawing From Home blog looks at sketching the self portrait in profile - this was commissioned with money provided by the Patreon and replaced his usual Saturday teaching - it is free and can be shar...
2020-03-22 08:21:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Over the ten long years in which the Drawing Circus traveled the UK never had we posed in such an opulent venue as the Music Room of Brighton's Royal Pavilion. With respect to the antique carpets the conservators prohibited the sharpening of penci...
2020-03-21 18:47:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Firstly, a huge thank you to everybody who has pledged their support to our Patreon. From friends and existing members of the Draw community to benevolent strangers, your monthly contributions are keeping Draw running and keeping our artists, mode...
2020-03-20 17:18:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Today is the day we launch our Patreon (welcome!). This is in the context of a really difficult week for the whole life drawing community, where coronavirus concerns have killed all classes overnight. Never wanting to be pessimistic we have our po...
2020-03-18 09:03:05 +0000 UTC View Post
While everybody is locked indoors we wanted to put a positive spin on things, so over the next three weeks Draw tutor Lancelot Richardson and I are going to be collecting ideas to inspire you while you are Drawing From Home. As well collecting &nb...
2020-03-18 03:29:24 +0000 UTC View Post