The enduring fallacy of the artistic genius, birthing great works of imagination from the vacuum of a white-walled studio, encourages us to believe that creativity vision is innate. Art history and personal experience prove this to be untrue - you can use exercises to stimulate new ideas in t...
2021-06-15 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 14th 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 b...
2021-06-15 10:16:51 +0000 UTC View Post
When Priss modelled for the first time for me at Draw, I was struck by her hand poses and the interesting ways in which she used her hands for life modelling. The most characterful and variously articulated part of the body, hands are really useful and challenging visual stimulus, and the interac...
2021-06-11 09:23:25 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 7th 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...
2021-06-08 06:45:09 +0000 UTC View Post
'Lemonade' is a new series of photo reference shot art directed by Laura Ryan and shot by Olly Hearsey. We'll be releasing a new set each Friday for the next 4 months and...
2021-06-04 09:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
As we move into the Draw summer term I wanted to update you on our plans for the Draw Patreon this summer. We recently invited everybody to contribute to a questionnaire about our programme and we've used those answers to plan the programme. Lots of people asked for some time to catch up on the L...
2021-06-02 09:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 31st May 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...
2021-05-31 22:20:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Over the last 34 weeks we've been sharing Lance's Tutored Life Drawing blogs on Mondays. That series is now complete and you'll find all 34 posts available to re-read via the Navigator here; Life Drawing / Student tier ...
2021-05-31 11:44:22 +0000 UTC View Post
In this Studies photo set we are zoom in on the surface of the body to look at the variety of body hair on the human figure. The variety of body hair you see on your model is the result of genetic, hormonal and environmental factors combined with personal grooming preferences. In this se...
2021-05-30 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Over the past 18 months we have built a substantial library of photo reference comprising clothed, unclothed & portrait photo reference of 28 different Draw models. These have been funded by you, with the pay from those shoots replacing the lost Draw work for our models over the last year. We...
2021-05-28 09:30:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to week thirty-four of our tutored life drawing sessions. This video is a recording of the live webinar aired on 26th May 2021. 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 on...
2021-05-26 12:17:32 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 24th May 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...
2021-05-25 08:43:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Body hair is highly variable, depending on the individual, and the part of the body it is located on. Though body hair doesn't contribute to the bulk of the body's mass, and is very much a surface feature, it does affect observations by changing the textures and tones of the surface of the figure...
2021-05-24 09:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In this Studies photo set we take a step back to look at an overview of lots of our wonderful Draw models. As Lance explains in the blog and video which accompany this photoset, skin tone and colour vary hugely both within a model's body and person-to-person. The tones and colours you ob...
2021-05-23 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Naomi has been a lynchpin of the Brighton life modelling scene for years and has been posing at Draw since 2014. Her academic background is in English literature and creative writing, feeding into her prose, poetry and writing workshops at Brighton's 2021-05-21 14:09:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to week thirty-three of our tutored life drawing sessions. This video is a recording of the live webinar aired on 19th May 2021. 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 o...
2021-05-19 14:03:38 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 17th May 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...
2021-05-17 21:38:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Rendering skin tone and colour in drawings and paintings can be challenge as skin can vary in multiple ways under a variety of conditions. Assumptions about what skin should look like also leads to problems, both with managing local values and the observed colour of skin.
Many different thi...
2021-05-17 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
As we near the end of our Tutored Life Drawing course we are broadening our studies to look at aspects of anatomy that express themselves across the whole body. In this Studies photo-set we look at fat and skin folds and their expression across all body shapes. These photos are cropped f...
2021-05-16 09:01:33 +0000 UTC View Post
The brilliant Sophie Reid has been modelling at Draw for a good few years, but was one of many models who decided against online life modelling, so we've been missing her this last year. Here she is in portrait-photo...
2021-05-14 09:36:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to week thirty-two of our tutored life drawing sessions. This video is a recording of the live webinar aired on 12th May 2021. 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 onl...
2021-05-12 12:26:58 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 10th May 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...
2021-05-11 07:38:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Fat and skin work together to define many surface features of the body. Fat is present under the skin in a thin layer around most of the body, smoothing out a lot of the definition of muscles and providing protection to more delicate structures such as blood vessels and nerves. The skin wraps aro...
2021-05-10 09:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This week our Studies photo-set focuses on the hands - you might also find it helpful to revisit the arms photoset to see the hands in context. These photos are cropped from the original hi...
2021-05-09 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
2012 was a time of renewal for the Drawing Circus and our intentions for the future were writ large in the autumn Manifesto. The colour and visual complexity of its sets contrasted with the monochrome Prologue which preceded it, covered in our past three 'Circus photo-sets (see ...
2021-05-07 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to week thirty-one of our tutored life drawing sessions. This video is a recording of the live webinar aired on 5th May 2021. 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...
2021-05-05 12:21:19 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 3rd May 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 ...
2021-05-03 20:02:29 +0000 UTC View Post
The hands are a subject many find challenging to draw. They are a complex part of the body, with many joints and mobile elements within a visually small area relative to the whole figure.
Handling this complexity is the biggest challenge of drawing the hand. This requires keen observation o...
2021-05-03 09:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is our final ETC interview in the 6-part ART/WORK SERIES, aired on the 30th March 2021. In this interview I talk to sculptor and anatomist Eleanor Crook about her background as a classics student-turned art student and the themes & processes behind her sculpture; this video is the uncens...
2021-05-02 10:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This week our Studies photo-set focuses on the arms - if you're learning more about the arms it's also well worth making accompanying studies of neck & shoulders, from which the arms are susp...
2021-05-02 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post