Gain confidence in drawing the figure, with these tutored sessions on some basic principles of life drawing. 

Artist Justine Moss will offer guidance and advice to help you to learn skills in mark-making, portraying movement and capturing expression.

Suitable for all abilities. Basic materials provided. For ages 18+.

Come along to each session to experiment with a different theme – or pick and choose the ones you want to focus on.

Significant shapes

Sun 3 Jan, 1:30pm

Simplify the figure into interlocking shapes, to help with proportion and the speed of your figure drawing.

Mark making

Sun 7 Feb, 1:30pm

Lose control, then gain control of your marks as you find the form of the figure by using an extended drawing implement.

Foreshortening

Sun 7 March, 1:30pm

Hints and tips on seeing and drawing foreshortened poses.

What is life drawing?

During a life drawing session, there will be a nude model surrounded by artists. This is why the classes are limited to ages 18+. The model will be posing for different durations. The poses can vary from 2 minutes to 10 minutes and an hour.

You will be drawing the human form in various poses and levels of detail from highly detailed and anatomically proportional drawings to loose and expressive sketches. Find out more about what happens in a life drawing class here.

About the artist – Justine Moss (she/her)

Dr Justine Moss works in the expanded field of drawing. Many of her responses and interventions only exist momentarily and it is this fleeting quality she aims convey in her more permanent works.

She completed a practice-based PhD, drawing garments being discarded by the female wearer in 1950s-60s narrative film, with a fully funded studentship at Arts University Bournemouth (2025).

She has recently exhibited at Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, London (2024), The Bank Remnants (2026) and Norwich Castle In Proximity (2026). She is an active member of the AUB drawing research group Transformative Matter: Material Trace, who regularly meet to make site-specific responsive drawings across the UK at locations including the Pitt Rivers Museum and Kew Gardens. This spring she undertook a residency exploring bird sounds using graphite at the Viarco pencil factory in Portugal and is a member of Asylum Studios.

She teaches on the drawing degree at the Open University and runs a longstanding life drawing group in Woodbridge, as well running workshops in life drawing and watercolour at Firstsite.

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