Beginners Drawing Courses
Fall in love with Drawing and embark on your creative journey with drawing courses for beginners at the City Lit Art School, available both online and in London. Whether you’re new to drawing or looking to improve your skills, our expert-led courses provide a supportive environment where you can learn essential drawing techniques and develop your artistic abilities.
Our courses cover the fundamentals of drawing, including sketching, shading, perspective, and composition. You’ll gain hands-on experience using a variety of materials, such as pencils, charcoal, and pastels, to express your creativity and capture the world around you. Our tutors provide individual feedback to help you refine your techniques and build confidence in your work.
With live interactive sessions, group discussions, and practical exercises, you’ll explore different drawing styles, experiment with new methods, and create your own artwork. Whether you’re interested in drawing from life, still life, or abstract subjects, our courses offer the tools and inspiration you need to grow as an artist.
Explore our Beginners Drawing courses today, available online and in London, and take the first step towards improving your drawing skills and expressing your creativity.
- Drawing and mindfulness: releasing the judging mind
Course start date: Sat 6 Dec 2025Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Clare Barton-HarveyExplore a range of perspectives and practical exercises for letting-go of the limiting effects of the judging mind, whilst connecting to drawing in refreshing and inspiring ways. The ideas and mindfulness skills are transferrable to all creative disciplines.
Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00 - Art and creative thinking with Rod Judkins Course start date: Sun 7 Dec 2025 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Rod JudkinsArt is fundamentally about communicating ideas. If the idea is strong, the work of art is memorable.
This exciting, one day workshop, led by Rod Judkins (artist, tutor and author of ‘The art of Creative thinking’ and ‘Ideas are your only currency’) will explore methods to create ideas and concepts and combine them with the process of making. You will receive a signed copy of Art and Creative Thinking when you attend this course.Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00 - Drawing from plants and flowers Course start date: Mon 5 Jan 2026 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Steve WrightExplore the delicacy and beauty of plants and flowers through the medium of drawing. Respond to their structural qualities and colours, using a range of media and taking inspiration from a rich and varied history of the subject. Suitable for all levels of experience.Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00 - Drawing and mindfulness: morning meditation Course start date: Mon 12 Jan 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Helen BurgessJoin us and set up your day in a tranquil, reflective way with our 5 day Drawing and mindfulness: morning meditation course. As daily life is full of uncertainty and with our attention getting pulled in many directions why not take some personal time to reset and focus combining meditation with some simple drawing exercises. You will be guiding your mind to settle and to look with care at the world around us and our inner experience. Whether you want to do something nourishing before you go to work or are setting up for a day of creative activity, the practices of drawing and mindfulness will bring a positive start to each morning, helping you begin the days with fresh eyes and mind. Suitable for all levels.Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00 - Drawing 1 Course start date: Tue 13 Jan 2026 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Eleanor BedlowAn introduction to drawing from observation through a carefully structured approach in a studio environment. Suitable for beginners.Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £359.00 Concession £292.00 - Life drawing after work Course start date: Tue 13 Jan 2026 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sisetta ZapponeA fun, relaxed and shorter life drawing class better suited for people coming straight from work. You will be able to work from a variety of life models, in a range of materials and with a variety of poses. You will be working from the unclothed model, both male and female.Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £127.00 Concession £103.00 - Collage and mixed media: book arts Course start date: Thu 15 Jan 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ruth FranklinAn exciting short experimental course working with found books and individual book constructions to explore and combine a variety of creative techniques. Including collage, drawing, painting, mono-printing and paper as interventions into the pages of a book to create unexpectedly beautiful or powerful new work.Full fee £339.00 Senior fee £271.00 Concession £220.00 - Drawing and painting from the imagination Course start date: Thu 15 Jan 2026 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sisetta ZapponeCultivate a range of methods for stimulating and connecting to what inspires you, and develop ways to express your imagination freely using a variety of media and approaches. In person (City Lit studios) OR on-line; please check your selection before enrolling.
Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00 - City Lit contemporary collage projects 2 Course start date: Thu 15 Jan 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Jera MayCity Lit contemporary collage projects 1 initiates a year-long set of collage and mixed media projects designed to experiment with and examine the interplay between the two and three dimensions. You will work with a wide range of materials, on and off the wall, extending our pictorial practice into the realm of collage, painting, drawing, assemblage, bricolage, decoupage, photomontage, small scale constructions, printing and text within the context of mixed media.
Note* the course is designed in a way to enable students to either complete all three courses over the year or to come in at any stage in no particular order.Full fee £839.00 Senior fee £671.00 Concession £545.00 - Life drawing for beginners Course start date: Thu 15 Jan 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Henry Gibbons GuyThis short course is a great introduction to drawing directly from the nude model, both male and female. Using simple exercises, you will explore different ways to represent the human form in drawing, with encouraging, helpful guidance from an experienced tutor. Suitable for absolute beginners.
Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00 - Drawing for beginners Course start date: Mon 5 Jan 2026 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Joe RichardsonExplore traditional and less traditional methods of drawing simple objects. Using structured activities, you will be introduced to key concepts such as line, tone, composition and mark-making. Ideal if you have little or no drawing experience; a great way to learn the basics or prepare for longer courses.
Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £127.00 Concession £103.00 - Drawing: colour pastel techniques Course start date: Tue 20 Jan 2026 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ro SylvesterExplore the versatility and rich colours of this beautiful drawing and painting medium. Through practical exercises, discover its potential to create a variety of surface effects and its suitability for sketching and colour work.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Drawing: ink and wash techniques Course start date: Fri 23 Jan 2026 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Jack DuplockThe immediacy and versatility of ink and wash is perfect for those sketching on location, for designers and for students interested in watercolour techniques. Take the opportunity to explore the basic techniques of this exciting process.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Introduction to using a sketchbook Course start date: Mon 26 Jan 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ruth BrisonCreate a 'visual journey' of discovery through an experimental sketchbook. Explore materials and techniques with confidence, including mark making, drawing and mixed media to produce a collection of work or personal ideas for further development. Suitable for all.Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00 - Explore: drawing and mindfulnessCourse start date: Fri 6 Feb 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Clare Barton-HarveyAn introduction to drawing and mindfulness and how mindfulness can support greater confidence, creativity, and a sense of freedom when drawing. The workshop is suitable for beginners to mindful drawing including those with experience in one or other discipline.
Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00
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