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Join Lydia for this 1- hour mastercopy session studying the Roman sculpture portrait of Maximinus Thrax, exploring the history of portraiture and the techniques that still influence drawing today. You’ll focus on strong structure, simplified form, and the use of light and shadow to describe the head clearly and sculpturally. Materials used: Chalk and charcoal on grey toned paper.

Draw or paint model Mastercopy of Roman Portrait Sculpture in this hour-long portrait drawing session with Lydia Cecil

For this week's figure 1- hour figure class, Lizet is doing another pastel experiment! Looking at warm and cool colours in a limited palette, as well as pushing your colour choices in pastel. Materials used: Soft pastels on brown paper, and willow charcoal for the underdrawing. Lizet used Jackson's soft pastels in pale yellow, rose grey, red brown and van dycke brown, plus a bit of violet and carmine for the colourful accents.

Join Lizet for this week's 1- hour portrait session with model James R, drawing the profile with a limited pastel pencil palette on brown toned paper. The focus is on balancing warm and cool tones, layering colour to build subtle halftones and lights while keeping the portrait simple and controlled. Materials used: Pastel pencils on brown toned paper. Lizet uses white, beige red, earth or chrome green and Van Dyke brown by Faber Castell, plus willow charcoal for the drawing.

For this week's 1-hour figure session, Lydia will be working from an unusual pose with model Freya, focusing on temperature shifts and how they can guide attention to an unexpected focal point. The drawing will explore the balance between warm and cool tones, using limited colour to build contrast, depth, and emphasis across the figure. Materials used: black, white, and red Caran d’Ache pencils.

Join Luca for this week's 1- hour portrait session with model Jess, focusing on using gesture lines to bring energy and vitality into the drawing. Materials used: Graphite pencils 3B and B, white coloured pencil on A4 grey Fabriano paper, Mars Plastic eraser, Tombow Mono Zero eraser.

In this 1-hour figure session, Lizet works through three poses with model Jessika (10, 20 and 30 minutes), focusing on mark-making. The session looks at how to prevent your drawing from becoming overworked, balancing atmospheric marks with more directional ones, and breaking up shapes to pull focus and guide the eye across the figure. Materials used: soft black pastel (sharpened into a wedge), white cartridge paper, blending tool, grey putty eraser.

Join Lizet for this week's 1- hour portrait session with model David W, focusing on drawing hair texture, building the structure first before using light to describe the flow and form. Materials used: White and black pastel pencil, willow charcoal on grey paper.

For this week's 1-hour figure drawing session, model Mark T will be posing, and Lizet will be looking at form and light, inspired by Steve Huston's and other animators' way of drawing the figure. Materials used: Black conte, or black soft pastel, and a compressed charcoal or black pastel pencil. A putty eraser, a hard eraser, or even a mechanical eraser. A stump for blending.

Join Lizet for this month’s FREE 1- hour portrait session with model Alex, focusing on creating a strong likeness in a profile drawing. You’ll look at how angles and shapes come together to capture the character of the face, while building the drawing with controlled tone and careful detail. Materials used: Pencil on white paper, range from 6B to H, 0.5 mm clutch pencil, blending stump.

In this 1-hour figure session, Lydia focuses on measuring and edge control in a sustained drawing with model David. The emphasis is on checking proportions by eye and adjusting as you go, while keeping edges soft or sharp where needed to describe form. The aim is a drawing that feels balanced, clear, and responsive to the pose. Materials used: Willow charcoal, Nitram charcoal, and white paper.

Join Lydia for this 1- hour mastercopy session exploring the work of Gwen John, marking 150 years since her birth and inspired by the Strange Beauties exhibition. You’ll focus on building a quiet, understated portrait through soft tone and careful observation.The Gwen John exhibition is still on show at the National Museum Cardiff until June 2026. Materials used: Charcoal pencil or soft pencil on paper.

For this week’s 1-hour figure session, Lizet focuses on the anatomy of the upper back, exploring how different muscles show up in different poses through three 20-minute studies with model Andreas. Using clear, precise mark-making, she demonstrates how to map landmarks and simplify anatomy into readable shapes. You can use any material you like, as long as it allows for controlled, accurate lines. Materials used: Any precise drawing tool ,white paper, purple coloured pencil (Lizet’s choice)

Join Luca for this 1- hour portrait session with model Wei, building the head through simple masses and clear tonal control. You’ll focus on proportion, light and shadow, and using soft and sharp edges to shape the form while keeping the drawing clean and readable. Materials used: Graphite clutch pencils and white pencil on grey toned paper.

This should be a fun one! Join Lizet for this weeks 1 - hour mastercopy of Wright of Derby. Inspired by 'From the shadows', an exhibition currently on show at the National Gallery in London until the 10th of May. Materials used: Pastel and willow charcoal on grey-toned paper. Light yellow soft pastel, sanguine soft pastel, and pitt pastel pencils; sanguine pastel pencil, van dyck brown pastel pencil and beige red pastel pencil. Lizet also used a hog brush for blending.

Join Luca for this week’s 1- hour portrait session with model Jane, working on a hand toned sanguine ground and building the head through simple shapes and soft tonal shifts. You’ll focus on adjusting proportions, controlling edges, and keeping the drawing unified with a clear sense of light and depth. Materials used: Sanguine and white pencils on sanguine-toned paper.

For this week’s 1- hour figure session, join Lizet for a quick draw with model Samantha, working through a series of short poses to build confidence in markmaking and pressure control. You’ll learn to keep your marks loose and responsive, focusing on energy and observation rather than detail. Materials used: Conté crayon in a colour of your choice, burnt sienna recommended.

Join Lizet for this month's FREE 1- hour portrait session with model Zarima, where she will be focusing on drawing like a painter and focusing on moving dark and light shapes to find the form. Materials used: Willow and Nitram charcoal on charcoal toned white paper, optional white pastel pencil.

Join Lizet for this 1- hour online session as she demonstrates how to draw Bargue Plate I, 15: The Hand Plate. Working in pencil, you will follow a step by step process to draw a Bargue plate from an 18th century teaching book for art students that is still used in ateliers today.Materials used: Soft Graphite pencils, going from H to 6B or darker, on white paper.

Join Luca for this weeks 1- hour portrait drawing session with model Imogen, exploring how a few warm tones can work together to harmonise the drawing. Materials used: Brown, black and white Polychromos pencils on brown A4 paper, Mono Zero eraser.

Join Lydia for this 1- hour master copy session exploring Sorolla’s Contadina de Assisi (1888), focusing on a clothed figure and the play of light and shadow. Materials used: Chalk and charcoal on toned paper.

Join Luca in this week's 1-hour portrait session where he will be sculpting a portrait of model Matt with grey pencils. A simple approach to drawing that focuses on building form and volume instead of outlining with lines. Materials used: Grey polychromos pencils on black A4 paper. Mono zero eraser.

Join Lizet for this 1-hour figure session, with model Adrian, working on 4 x 15 min quick draw, foreshortened poses. Materials used: Coloured pencils on grey toned paper, blending stump, eraser.

Join Lizet for this week's 1-hour portrait session of model Anne, creating a likeness in coloured pencil, with a focus on building a profile through layered colour and clear light and shadow. Materials used: Coloured pencils on grey toned paper, blending stump, eraser.

For this week’s 1- hour figure session, join tutor Lydia and model Pigeon for a structured back pose study using chalk and charcoal on grey-toned paper. You will learn to group values clearly, design edges and keep the drawing loose and readable. Materials used: chalk and charcoal on grey toned paper, measuring stick and putty rubber.