Online Life Drawing: In Front of the Mirror

If you’ve never tried life drawing online before, this themed 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, two 10-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 – if you’d like some pointers on getting started, take a look at this video HERE.

Each week we'll be following a different theme to inspire our model’s props and poses. This week Hannah Jay will be riffing off of Degas pastel “In Front of the Mirror”, to create a series of mirror and dressing-room oriented poses. The session will be led by Draw Head Tutor Jake Spicer - Jake is an experienced teacher and author with a passion for teaching people how to draw. His recent book ‘Figure Drawing’ is available for purchase HERE.

Above artwork: In Front of the Mirror by Degas

How to join the session

• You can book a place for today’s session here through Eventbrite – but the cheapest way to book is by joining the Draw Patreon. For £3+VAT per month you will get access to this session and ALL of the other Wednesday life drawing classes at the end of the month. You can cancel the monthly membership at any time.
  
• On the Draw Patreon, you’ll 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 devise, 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!