Summer School: Sketchbook & zine making with Sarah Dyer

In a follow up to last year’s popular Sketchbook Summer School, award winning illustrator & picture book maker Sarah Dyer will help you cultivate a better relationship with your sketchbook, introducing exercises you need to establish a daily drawing habit. A sketchbook is a personal space for exploring new ideas, recording your experiences of the world and experimenting with new materials. Sarah will then support everybody to develop their ideas into a zine format.

This course will be a wonderful opportunity to learn directly from Sarah at the Draw Studio in Brighton. If you find yourself paralyzed by the blank page, struggling to find the time to draw or you just wanted to spend three days playing with new process and materials in great company then this Summer School is for you!

What to expect

This will be a creative, experimental course with plenty of one-to-one support from tutor Sarah. The first three days of the course will cover ways to use your sketchbook to record your surroundings and daily experiences, including drawing from interior spaces, recording the city of Brighton and drawing figures and faces in the studio. On the fourth day of the course we will have a half-day of tutored time with the rest of the day to explore Brighton.

What you need to bring

All materials will be provided, although we welcome you to bring along any empty sketchbooks you have at home which you'd like to start using!

Getting to the studio

You may arrive at 9:45am onwards on Monday. Approach New England House from the New England Street side of the building and walk up to the locked blue double doors next to the sign for the ‘Building Manager’s Office’. Wait to be let in or call the number on the door for entry - the studio is on level 5, Unit 1 South, just knock and walk in. There is parking at London Road car park, Elder Place & Trafalgar St car parks; Brighton station is a 5 minute walk from the studio.

Discounts

The discounted rate is available for anybody on low income, students or Patreon supporters. Sign up to the Draw Patreon from just £3.60 per month to get access to the discount, online life drawing course, live online classes and personal feedback from our tutors. Whether you are a Patreon supporter or not, you can post your drawings on the Draw community Facebook group and you are welcome to tag us with @draw_brighton and #drawbrighton on Instagram.

Safety & accessibility

For the wellbeing of everybody at the class please don’t come to the class if you are ill with contagious symptoms. If you have any accessibility needs, please do let us know beforehand and we will do everything we can to make sure you can enjoy the life classes here. The building has a wheelchair ramp at the North side of the New England Street entrance and lifts up to level 5 with gender-neutral toilets & accessible toilets on floors 4 & 6 accessed by lift. We keep the studio a safe environment by providing:

• Monitored ventilation (aiming for <900ppm CO2)
• Air purification with HEPA filters
• Sick pay for our freelance life models
• If you have covid, flu or bad cold symptoms we ask you not to attend - you will receive a refund as well as our appreciation!

Cancellations

Bookings are non-refundable. If you are unwell with a contagious illness you may not attend the class - you can request a refund here on Eventbrite and we can issue a full refund, minus Eventbrite's fees. If you are unable to attend, please do get in touch with us on info@draw-brighton.co.uk to discuss the options for giving up your place in exchange for credit at other Draw Brighton courses, or transferring your place to another attendee.