Drawing courses
Learning to draw can be fulfilling, frustrating, challenging, rewarding and relaxing! We offer drawing courses for the complete beginner, as well as a range of courses to develop your skills - from the use of colour and creating portraits to developing sketchbooks. Our expert tutors will guide and develop your skills and you will also learn a huge amount from your fellow students. Come and enjoy these popular classes - but hurry, as they do tend to fill up quickly.To find out more about our drawing courses call 020 7492 2700 or email visualarts@citylit.ac.uk
- Basic perspective for drawing and visualisation
- Creative sketchbook
- Develop your drawing
- Drawing 1
- Drawing and mixed media
- Drawing connections
- Drawing continued
- Drawing development
- Drawing sounds
- Drawing systems and perspective
- Drawing the line
- Drawing: some basics
- Large scale sketchbook
- Seeing images
- Sketchbook course
- Starting a sketchbook
- Starting to draw
- Taking sketchbooks further
- Try drawing
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- Visual arts
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- Offsite and studio development courses
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- Photography
- Beginners
- Business and copyright
- Computer based photography courses
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- Exhibiting your photographs
- History, theory and talks about photography
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- Photographing London
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- Portfolio and project creation
- Printing courses
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- Drama, dance and speech
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- Acting - advanced
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- Humanities
- Music
- Cello
- Clarinet
- Classical guitar
- Flute
- Instrument playing
- Instrumental ensembles
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- Music access course
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- Piano and keyboards
- Record your performance
- Recorder
- Singing
- String ensembles
- Ukelele
- Violin
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- Health and movement studies
- Alexander technique
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- Complementary health studies
- Continuing professional development for therapists
- Energy and healing
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- Professional development for movement instructors
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- Apple Mac
- Basic computing
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- Desktop publishing
- Digital Inclusion
- Explore your interests using a computer
- Keyboard skills
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- Psychology, counselling & personal development
- English, maths & ESOL
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Contact us
Visual arts
Tel: 020 7492 2700
Please email us for advice or call us during these times:
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays - 9.00 -12.00 & 15:00-18:00
Thursdays - 9.00-12.00
Saturdays - 14.00-17.00
To enrol on a course, call 020 7831 7831.
Featured course
VX126 - Fashioning fabrics: ruffles, flounces, pleats and tucks Sunday; 26/02/12 - 18/03/12; 10:30 - 16:30 Develop fabric manipulation techniques to add volume, structure and drama using ruffles and flounces, pleating, tucks and gathering
Why City Lit?
If you are looking for a great choice of inspiring courses; a bright, modern environment to learn in located in central London; the opportunity to have fun and meet like-minded people, we look forward to seeing you at City Lit!