Online Life Drawing

If you’ve never tried life drawing online before, this session is great place to start. You’ll be drawing from a model posing live over Zoom alongside sketchers of all abilities, from around the world. The unclothed model will hold five 1-minute poses, five 3-minute poses and a final 30-minute pose. The session is untutored with a Session Leader on hand to offer help and we’ll have a different model posing virtually each week - you can find out who is modelling at each upcoming online session by checking these listings. If you’d like some pointers on getting started, take a look at this video HERE.

Our model this week is Evita and the session will be led by Sara Reeve. Sara is a Brighton-based artist and tutor at Draw – she hosts the weekly daytime life drawing sessions and runs in-person classes in oil painting.

How to join the session 

You can click on the booking link below to be taken to our Eventbrite page and buy a ticket - but the cheapest way to book is by joining the Draw Patreon to get access to today’s session. For £3+VAT per month you will get access to ALL of the Wednesday life drawing classes at the end of the month. You can cancel the monthly membership at any time. 

Draw Patreons have tiered access to a wealth of Patreon resources including our extensive artist photo reference library, live online life drawing & portrait drawing classes, online recorded courses and you’ll get the concessionary rate for one-off sessions.  For more information and to sign up click HERE. 

Before the session

• Before the session, make sure you have a Zoom account and drawing materials for the class
• At the advertised time of the session, set yourself up to draw in front of your device, sign in to Zoom and click on the link in your email to join the class.

Looking after the model

• Please, never take photographs or screen shots of the model
• Keep your camera ON during the session – this helps the model to feel safe and to maintain the sense of community that is so important to our classes. If you cannot turn your camera on, let the session leader know with a message at the start of the session.
• You are always welcome to send the model a thankyou tip via the link that accompanies your booking.

After the session

• If you’d like to share your drawings with the rest of the community can post them up on the Draw Community Facebook group HERE
• You can also share your work with us on Instagram, tagging the model, tutor & @draw_brighton or using the #drawbrighton hashtag.
• Get planning your next drawing session with us – you can find out who is modelling at our upcoming online sessions by checking our listings and website!

International attendees 

We’re based in the UK but if you are elsewhere in the world we’d love to have you at our sessions! To check the time of this class in your area, just type the time of the session, ‘London’ and set your own local city in this time zone converter HERE.