Online Portrait Club

Online Portrait Club 

The first rule of portrait club: Everybody sits for portrait club.

The idea is simple - when you join the portrait club Zoom session you will be welcomed by the host, then put into a group of 4-5 people. Everybody in that group takes it in turns to pose in front of the camera for 8-10 minutes while everybody else draws. By the end of the hour you will have all been drawn 3-4 times and will have made 3-4 drawings of other people. It’s a light-hearted, untutored session for all levels of experience, proving a chance to practice drawing a wide range of faces and to meet some lovely new people at the same time.

Our Optional Theme for this week is: BLIND DRAWING. Attendees are encouraged to draw their portraits without looking at their paper for half of the pose, and then draw on-top of their blind portrait while looking for the second half of the pose.

How to join the session

• The cheapest way to join Portrait club is to sign up to any paid tier of the Draw Patreon, which will give you weekly access from £3.60 per month. Alternatively, you can click on the booking link below to be taken to our Eventbrite page and buy a ticket.  
• Draw Patreon supporters 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 a concessionary rate for in-person classes at our studio. You can cancel the monthly membership at any time. 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 each other

• Please, never take photographs or screen shots of any portrait club participant
• Keep your camera ON during the session – this helps all participants 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.

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 each other, the host & @draw_brighton or using the #drawbrighton hashtag.

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.