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.
47 courses available
Drawing from plants and flowersExplore 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 £349.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £227.00- Explore: drawing and mindfulness
Discover how mindfulness can support a sense of creativity and freedom when drawing. Learn how to engage sensory awareness and enliven your perception and presence of mind. A taster workshop, suitable for beginners to drawing, mindfulness, or both!
Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - Anatomical life drawing
Discover the extraordinary construction of the human body. Through direct observation of the model you will examine the fundamental anatomical structures that underlie life drawing. For those with some drawing experience.
Keeley Street
Tue 13 Oct 2026Andrea VoiseyFull fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00 - Drawing and mindfulness: introduction
Explore how mindfulness can enrich drawing and give you more creative freedom. This course offers a great introduction to mindful drawing or ways to explore it more deeply. A practical drawing course from observation, and the imagination.
Online
Fri 23 Oct 2026Clare Barton-HarveyFull fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Sketching at Tate ModernExploring the pleasure and challenge of sketchbooks; learn and improve your drawing skills and 'ways of seeing' and understanding, working from an exciting range of artworks in Tate modern.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00
- Sketching at Tate Britain
Explore the pleasure and challenge of sketchbooks: learn and improve your drawing skills and ‘ways of seeing’ and understanding by working from some of the iconic artworks at Tate Britain.
MEETING PLACE: Manton Entrance ramp on Atterbury Street by the benches next to the CLOAKROOM on the lower floor.
Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00 - Drawing: ink and wash techniquesThe 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 £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00
- Drawing and painting from the imagination
Cultivate 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 £329.00 Senior fee £263.00 Concession £214.00 - Sketching at the British Museum
Exploring the pleasure and challenge of sketchbooks; learn and improve your drawing skills and 'ways of seeing' and understanding, working from an exciting range of objects and artifacts in The British Museum.
Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00 - Collage and mixed media: experimental approachesCollage is an exciting, accessible and creative medium. Experiment with a rich variety of materials and found images to make vibrant work experimenting with surface, form, colour and pattern, inspired by artists who make effective use of this way of working.Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00
- Drawing 1
A comprehensive introduction to drawing from observation in a studio environment. Learn how to depict form and space with accuracy, training your eye to become more sensitive to what you see. Suitable for beginners.
The RFSA Foundation helps widen access to art and design education by supporting learners facing financial, personal or practical barriers. If you meet the eligibility criteria, you may be able to apply for funding towards this course if you are looking to do it as part of the longer suite of courses eg 1, 2 and/or 3. You will need to do a minimum of two of the staged courses to be eligible for financial support. Read our step-by-step bursary guidance here to find out more and apply.
If you are eligible and have already enrolled, you can apply for the funding support retrospectively.
Full fee £479.00 Senior fee £383.00 Concession £311.00 - Collage and mixed media: 3D approachesAn exciting short, experimental course taking an adventure in collage to make 3D constructions from paper, amalgamating found materials and images to make exciting new sculptural forms.
Keeley Street
Thu 12 Nov 2026Ruth FranklinFull fee £359.00 Senior fee £287.00 Concession £233.00 - Drawing and mindfulness: releasing the judging mind
Explore 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.
Online
Sat 14 Nov 2026Clare Barton-HarveyFull fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00 - Anatomical portrait drawing
Discover the extraordinary construction of the human head. Through direct observation of the model you will examine the fundamental anatomical structures that underlie portrait drawing. For those with some drawing experience.
Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00 - Sketching at the V&AExploring the pleasure and challenge of sketchbooks; learn and improve your drawing skills and 'ways of seeing' and understanding, working from a fascinating range of objects and artifacts in The Victoria and Albert Museum.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00
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