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.
- Composing the figure
- Contemporary art sketchbook walk
- Creative sketchbook
- Develop your drawing
- Developing a sketchbook
- Drawing 1
- Drawing and mixed media
- Drawing and touch
- Drawing connections
- Drawing continued
- Drawing for textiles
- Drawing from natural history
- Drawing in the National Gallery
- Drawing sounds
- Drawing systems and perspective
- Drawing the line
- Drawing with colour
- Drawing: new ways of seeing
- Drawing: some basics
- From sketchbook to studio
- Large scale sketchbook
- Sketchbook course
- Sketching landscape and the city
- Start using colour
- Starting a sketchbook
- Starting to draw
- Try drawing
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- Visual arts
- Art foundation and portfolio preparation courses
- Art history
- Bookbinding, book arts and conservation
- Calligraphy
- Ceramics
- Design
- Digital arts
- Drawing
- Drawing and painting from life
- Fashion, sewing and clothesmaking
- Fibre arts: textiles and basketry
- Graphic design, DTP, illustration and cartooning
- Interior decoration
- Jewellery
- Mosaics
- Painting
- Printmaking
- Professional practice
- Sculpture
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- Photography
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- Language tasters
- Modern foreign languages teacher training
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- Drama, dance and speech
- Accredited Dance Courses
- Advanced acting courses
- Bi-media courses: TV, radio and sound
- Communication courses for speakers of other languages
- Courses for professional actors
- Dance and movement
- Follow-on drama courses
- Introductory drama courses
- One and two-day courses
- One-week intensive courses
- One-year advanced diploma
- One-year drama access course
- One-year drama foundation course
- Professional skills - technical
- Professional skills for actors
- Professional theatre company
- Summer school
- Sunday courses
- Voice, speech and communication
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- London walks
- Philosophy
- Science and environment
- Summer school: Britain in the 1930s
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- Music
- Health and movement studies
- Alexander technique
- Anatomy and physiology
- Complementary health studies
- Continuing professional development for therapists
- Energy and healing
- Massage and bodywork: introductory level
- Massage and bodywork: professional practitioner level
- Meditation and stress management
- Movement classes
- Nutrition and food safety
- Self-defence
- Training for teachers
- Yoga
- Your progression routes to teaching
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- Apple Mac
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- Graphic illustration and multimedia
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- Progress - courses for people with learning difficulties
- Speech therapy
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Contact us
Visual arts
Tel: 020 7492 2700
Drop-in advice
Term-time: please call for advice
Non-term time:
Tue 17:30 - 18:30 & Wed 12:30 - 13:30
Featured course
Sculpture: making animals from wire
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!