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Here Painting a Head tutor, Robert Dukes discusses the challenges of relating the model to their surroundings and suggests an exercise to help students consider how to place figures in ...

Tutor Rossen Daskalov takes you through the different processes you can use to build up a multi-layered print with press-free techniques. Rossen will be teaching on this Summer's Drawing Marathon.

Drawing Year alumna Nell Brookfield has just finished her last term at the Pratt Institute in New York where she experienced both online learning and teaching. Nell talks about how ...

Young Artists tutor Paul Fenner wants young artists to explore their surroundings using the power of memory and drawing.

Drawing: Composition and Colour tutor, Will Topley introduces us to the Claude Glass and explains how it simplifies the tonal range and break downs an observable scene into manageable shapes. ...

Irene Montemurro is the recipient of the Denis Mahon Award 2020. Presented to one outgoing Drawing Year student annually, the award allows them to continue their practice, providing them with ...

Clare Newbolt, who is teaching Drawing Landscapes, Gardens and Natural Forms, asks us to embed our changing sensibilities in the natural forms we are drawing.

Here Sarah Lightman, guest tutor for Summer Term Online (Drawing Graphic Narratives), discusses diary drawing and how we might use it to tell our personal day-to-day experiences.

The Studio Room in Colour tutors Mark Cazalet and Andy Pankhurst introduce two exercises that ask us to attune our eye to all aspects of colour.

Drawing and Mindfulness tutors Helen Burgess and Ethan Pollock offer a drawing exercise and a short meditation that ask us to be still and notice the aspects of our subject ...

Here Ann Dowker, Drawing from The National Gallery tutor, introduces the idea of Ekphrasis - the dramatic, vivid and imaginative description of a work of art; a painting to a ...

In this exercise Drawing and Human Anatomy tutor Tara Versey encourages us to become familiar with the human body, and how it occupies space before we draw it. The aim ...