Online Portrait Drawing: Tendai

If you’ve never tried portrait 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. In this clothed portrait session, our model will pose live on Zoom for three head-and-shoulder focused poses.

The clothed model will hold a 10-minute warm up pose while chatting to our session leader, giving you the chance to get to know them a bit better. They will then hold a 45-minute-long pose, followed by a 10-minute tea break and a final 45-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. 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.

Our model this week is Tendai and 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.

How to join the session

• You can book a place at the session here through Eventbrite - just click on Select Tickets.
• Alternately, you can save money by signing up to the Draw Patreon HERE on the Portrait Drawing Tier (£12+VAT per month) or on the Student All Access Tier for (£8+VAT per month). This will give you free access to our live portrait drawing sessions, recordings of 150+ previous portrait classes, access to our tutored Portrait Drawing courses and access to our portrait photo library. You can cancel the monthly membership at any time.

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 you 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!

Refunds

Please note, you can request a refund for our weekly online sessions up to 1 day before the session. Refunds will be the cost of your ticket minus the Eventbrite ticketing fee.