Dear friends,
I just wanted to pop you all a message to update you on the release of the next portrait drawing course video. The most recent video was due to be released yesterday but after being called upon to cover all of last weeks online drawing sessions (and what a joy that week was, to see so many of you at every session!) I was unable to finish the final edit before heading off on a short tour of the UK. I have just been in Cheltenham filming drawing in a new set of (as yet secre...
2023-05-12 07:07:35 +0000 UTC
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This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 8th May 2023. 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 session the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a much lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded locally and undergo more rigorous processing before their release. Please feel free to work from the video dir...
2023-05-08 21:36:23 +0000 UTC
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For our first photoset in our new series with Justyna Neryng we wanted to introduce Miles to the Patreon! Although we're planning to do an online portrait session with Miles soon he hasn't ever modelled for our online session or photosets but has become a more regular fixture at our in-person sessions. As the rotated clothed photosets went down well with everybody last year we've made sure each of our clothed photosets includes at least one rotation. Tag us in any drawings, paintings, prints ...
2023-05-07 08:12:10 +0000 UTC
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In this talk, recorded from a live interview on the 5th May 2023, I talk to Jeanette Barnes about her career as an artist, drawing cities and publishing
This video is a recording of a live Zoom life drawing session, aired on 3rd May 2023. The recording is shared here so that you can catch up and draw from the session if you missed it, or continue to work on a drawing if you attended live! As this is a recording of a live session the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded locally and undergo more rigorous processing before their release. Please feel free to work from the video...
2023-05-04 11:55:57 +0000 UTC
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This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 1st May 2023. 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 session the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a much lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded locally and undergo more rigorous processing before their release. Please feel free to work from the video dir...
2023-05-02 10:56:08 +0000 UTC
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After an excellent shoot last weekend I'm delighted to be able to share some preview images with you along with the schedule that we'll be releasing them on over the summer! The shoot was fun and fast paced as always - I was co-ordinating logistics from Wales while Lance ensured the studio was ready and Laura oversaw the running order. On the creative side, our new photographer Justyna Neryng was shooting and dir...
2023-04-30 12:59:58 +0000 UTC
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This video is a recording of a live Zoom life drawing session, aired on 26th April 2023. The recording is shared here so that you can catch up and draw from the session if you missed it, or continue to work on a drawing if you attended live! As this is a recording of a live session the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded locally and undergo more rigorous processing before their release. Please feel free to work from the vi...
2023-04-27 08:21:56 +0000 UTC
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This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 24th March 2023. 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 session the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a much lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded locally and undergo more rigorous processing before their release. Please feel free to work from the video ...
2023-04-25 08:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Ariane was our first featured portrait model and she has become ubiquitous, finding her way into dozens of exhibitions and thousands of sketchbook over the past three years. She doesn't have any social media herself and has remained in the mountains of Northern Italy since the photoshoot, occasionally joining us for a Zoom life class. In this photosets we're sharing some of the original portraits, an unseen rotation and some closer crops of her clothed photo-set.
2023-04-23 21:08:33 +0000 UTC
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We have a really exciting update about our upcoming photoshoots! Today we'll be shooting a brand new set of reference images working with the photographer Justyna Neryng, with lighting from Tobias Slater-Hunt. As I type, Laura is setting up the Draw studio and our models are on their way from London, Edinburgh and Brighton for a full day of sho...
2023-04-22 08:54:01 +0000 UTC
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This video is a recording of a live Zoom life drawing session, aired on 19th April 2023. The recording is shared here so that you can catch up and draw from the session if you missed it, or continue to work on a drawing if you attended live! As this is a recording of a live session the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded locally and undergo more rigorous processing before their release. Please feel free to work from the vi...
2023-04-21 09:11:38 +0000 UTC
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This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 17th March 2023. 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 session the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a much lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded locally and undergo more rigorous processing before their release. Please feel free to work from the video ...
2023-04-18 13:39:33 +0000 UTC
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This video is Lesson 5 of the 'Learning to see' term - in this lesson we'll take our first look at tonal shapes, with an exploration of hard, soft and lost tonal edges and tonal gradients. I'll show you how you can map those tones out in a drawing, before elaborating on tonal value. As always, to get full benefit from the course, watch one video per month, practicing for at least 2 hours per week over the course of that month, before moving on to the next lesson.
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2023-04-15 20:20:39 +0000 UTC
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This video is a recording of a live Zoom life drawing session, aired on 12th April 2023. The recording is shared here so that you can catch up and draw from the session if you missed it, or continue to work on a drawing if you attended live! As this is a recording of a live session the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded locally and undergo more rigorous processing before their release. Please feel free to work from the vi...
2023-04-13 08:19:33 +0000 UTC
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This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 10th March 2023. 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 session the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a much lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded locally and undergo more rigorous processing before their release. Please feel free to work from the video ...
2023-04-12 09:29:07 +0000 UTC
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This is our final photo-set of Christy's, shot way back in 2020 and includes a shoe-tying photosets for the illustrators who have been requesting the hand reference! Next week we'll be announcing some exciting news about our new round of photo-sets, which we will be shooting in two weeks time. For supporters on the Portrait, Student and Life tiers we've added more portrait photos to Christy's portrait photoset and life photo sets, with all the links below.
2023-04-09 10:59:32 +0000 UTC
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This video is a recording of a live Zoom life drawing session, aired on 5th April 2023. The recording is shared here so that you can catch up and draw from the session if you missed it, or continue to work on a drawing if you attended live! As this is a recording of a live session the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded locally and undergo more rigorous processing before their release. Please feel free to work from the vid...
2023-04-06 13:32:48 +0000 UTC
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This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 3rd March 2023. 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 session the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a much lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded locally and undergo more rigorous processing before their release. Please feel free to work from the video d...
2023-04-04 14:16:01 +0000 UTC
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It's been a long time coming but Ruth's final photo-set showcases one of her belly dancing outfits - she's the only model who never needs to borrow a costume for Drawing Circus tours. I hope you enjoy these reference images - check back through some of the photosets linked below for some more of Ruth's amazing looks!
2023-03-31 09:00:02 +0000 UTC
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This video is a recording of a live Zoom life drawing session, aired on 29th March 2023. The recording is shared here so that you can catch up and draw from the session if you missed it, or continue to work on a drawing if you attended live! As this is a recording of a live session the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded locally and undergo more rigorous processing before their release. Please feel free to work from the vi...
2023-03-30 09:55:27 +0000 UTC
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This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 27th March 2023. 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 session the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a much lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded locally and undergo more rigorous processing before their release. Please feel free to work from the video ...
2023-03-28 15:42:38 +0000 UTC
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This video is Lesson 4 of the 'Learning to see' term - in this lesson I'll show you how points and relational lines can be used to improve the proportion of your drawings. We'll explore those points in a continuous line drawing and look at the measured paintings of Euan Uglow. As always, to get full benefit from the course, watch one video per month, practicing for at least 2 hours per week over the course of that month, before moving on to the nex...
2023-03-27 16:26:26 +0000 UTC
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This video is a recording of a live Zoom life drawing session, aired on 22nd March 2023. The recording is shared here so that you can catch up and draw from the session if you missed it, or continue to work on a drawing if you attended live! As this is a recording of a live session the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded locally and undergo more rigorous processing before their release. Please feel free to work from the vi...
2023-03-24 13:01:56 +0000 UTC
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In the last of Sam's photosets we have one full portrait rotation to complement the clothed sets and past photosets we have already shot of her. I hope you enjoy them all! You'll find a full list of links to Sam's other photosets below.
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This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 20th March 2023. 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 session the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a much lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded locally and undergo more rigorous processing before their release. Please feel free to work from the video ...
2023-03-21 13:11:04 +0000 UTC
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Hi everybody,
This years expansion of our recorded sessions and our new portrait course has kept us all pretty busy so I wanted to share this mini life-drawing photo-set of the wonderful Beatrice to tide you over before we release some new sets and expand some past sets this month.
I also wanted to mark our 3-year Patreon anniversary! We had to close our in-person studio on the 13th March 2020 after our tutors started getting ill. Within 3 days we had booked in our first pho...
2023-03-18 17:59:01 +0000 UTC
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This video is Lesson 3 of the 'Learning to see' term - in this lesson I'll explain negative space and how it can be used in creating a strong underdrawing and problem solving later in a drawing. We'll practice seeing negatives spaces with some silhouette drawing exercises and I'll introduce the work of the contemporary British artist Barbara Walker. As always, to get full benefit from the course, watch one video per month, practicin...
2023-03-17 01:11:15 +0000 UTC
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This video is a recording of a live Zoom life drawing session, aired on 15th March 2023. The recording is shared here so that you can catch up and draw from the session if you missed it, or continue to work on a drawing if you attended live! As this is a recording of a live session the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded locally and undergo more rigorous processing before their release. Please feel free to work from the vi...
2023-03-15 21:20:20 +0000 UTC
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Lesson three of our portrait drawing course will be released late this evening, ready for you to practice tomorrow. In the meantime here's the recording of last nights portrait session:
This video is a recording of a live Zoom portrait session, aired on 13th March 2023. 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 session the quality is limited by Zoom ...
2023-03-14 14:50:38 +0000 UTC
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