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.

Sat 20 Jul – Gesture

Explore ways of adding a sense of movement and visual interest to your figure drawings.

Sat 14 Sept – Highlighting the Hands

Working with two models, learn techniques to simplify drawing hands.

Thu 26 Sept – Focus on Feet

Discover how to draw the feet from different angles in relation to the pose.

Sun 13 Oct – Volume

Explore ways to understand and draw the volumes of the body on the flat page.

Thu 7 Nov – Chiaroscuro (Evening Session)

Employing dramatic lighting to explore the shapes, volumes and textures of the pose.

Sat 16 Nov – Likeness

Become more specific in your drawings of the face, body and pose of model.

Sat 18 Jan – Collage

Using cut paper to determine the proportion of the body.

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)

I am an artist, educator and collector of wonderful things. I use drawing and watercolour to make sensitive, detailed or implicative studies of subjects including clothes, nature and the figure. I am currently completing a PhD on drawing garments in film. I run a thriving life-drawing group and lead community art workshops for adults.

I have lived in East Anglia for fifteen years and worked in art education across the region, from Southend to Great Yarmouth.