Drawing Courses in London
At City Lit, we have a variety of drawing courses, delivered in our bright, modern studios for students to create and develop a body of drawing work. Supported by our team of experienced and expert tutors, we offer students both a practical guide and an informative insight, providing an opportunity for all levels to explore traditional and contemporary styles of drawing.
We have classes for everyone, whether you’re a complete beginner and you want an introduction to drawing; or you’re at an intermediate or higher level and you want classes that focus on developing advanced drawing skills such as mark making techniques, experimental approaches and use of colour, tone and shade within these disciplines.
Our courses are specially designed to offer you support in overcoming any frustrations, learning new skills and helping you achieve your personal creative goals.
We host exhibitions throughout the year at City Lit Gallery where our students showcase their amazing work.
To arrange a conversation with our drawing coordinator about your interests, options and courses available, please contact our Visual Arts team at visualarts@citylit.ac.uk
- Explore your creativity
Course start date: Thu 26 Jun 2025 (and 3 other dates)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ro SylvesterTap into your artistic talents through a series of fun practical exercises that will help you start drawing, painting, looking at art, responding to the world around you and working with your imagination and ideas.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Indian Head massage: taster workshop Course start date: Thu 26 Jun 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Janet WhiteheadDiscover the ancient practice of Indian Head Massage. You will learn the basics of how to give and receive this highly therapeutic and relaxing form of massage.Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £49.00 - Painting: oil techniques and mediums Course start date: Thu 26 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Henry Gibbons GuyOil paint is a medium with a long historical tradition, capable of heavy impasto effects and delicate transparent colour films. Working practically, in the studio, this course will expand your understanding of approaches to building a variety of surfaces in your paint working with mediums and expanding your use of texture and glazing This course is for all levels – both beginners and more experienced painters.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00 - Literary Landscapes: Black London in Caleb Nelson’s Open Water and Sam Selvon’s The Lonely LondonersCourse start date: Thu 26 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Online
Black London is shifting and ever-evolving. This course explores how Costa award winning Caleb Nelson’s novel ‘Open Water’ and the great 1950’s classic of immigrant fiction, Sam Selvon’s ‘The Lonely Londoners’ reimagined our multicultural metropolis.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £79.00 - Generative AI tools for programming Course start date: Fri 27 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)
Generative AI is transforming programming. This course builds on your Python skills, teaching you to leverage AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot to generate, debug, and optimize code. Hands-on projects will enhance your coding efficiency and creativity.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00 - Generative AI strategy and governance Course start date: Fri 27 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Vina TheodorakopoulouThe Generative AI Strategy and Governance course will explore the strategic and ethical implications of generative AI adoption, focusing on responsible governance and effective strategies.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £129.00 - Christopher and his Kind: Christopher Isherwood in BerlinCourse start date: Fri 27 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Jake PollerThe experience of living in Berlin in the early 1930s had a transformative effect on the life and work of Christopher Isherwood. In this course, we will discuss Isherwood’s masterpiece, Goodbye to Berlin (1939), and his autobiography Christopher and His Kind (1976), which reveals the real people behind the characters of Sally Bowles and Otto Nowak, and shines a light on the queer culture of Berlin Isherwood was unable to write about in the 1930s.Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00 - Communication with older people with a hearing loss Course start date: Fri 27 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lorraine BragginsThe course will cover the features of age-related hearing loss and how these relate to what, and how, older people hear and understand. Participants will learn communication strategies so that older people can understand them better.
This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £69.00 - Essenian Healing: workshop Course start date: Sat 28 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Antonello BrunettiDiscover this ancient form of Spiritual-Energy Healing. Learn Auric Reading techniques using the Anatomy of physical and subtle bodies. Identify the emotional reasons behind illnesses, promoting a deeper understanding of the root causes. Perform Energy Healing therapies using Vibrational Sound, Acupressure and Essential Oils.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00 - NADA Protocol ear acupunctureCourse start date: Sat 28 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Farrah IdrisDo you want to become a certified NADA ear practitioner?
The NADA Protocol is a five-point ear acupuncture treatment that effectively reduces stress and anxiety, chronic pain, symptoms of addiction, supports smoking cessation, weight management and boost overall wellbeing.Full fee £509.00 Senior fee £509.00 Concession £509.00 - How to write a thrillerCourse start date: Sat 28 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sophie McKenzieLearn the art of writing a thriller novel, from concept and character to the twists and turns of story pacing. - Adobe Illustrator: a detailed introductionCourse start date: Sat 28 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: George StickneyAdobe Illustrator is a vector-based graphic design and drawing application that is the industry standard for digital illustration and graphic design professionals. Illustrator can be used to create infographics, logos, icons, posters and digital artwork.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00 - A condensed history of sculpture: ten sculptors who’ve shaped art historyCourse start date: Sat 28 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rachel SandersStudy sculptors from the Renaissance to the Post-Modern, including Donatello, Bernini, Canova, Rodin, Picasso and Whiteread, considering styles, materials, and techniques of key works within social and cultural contexts.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - Neurodiversity as a fact of society: a brief introductionCourse start date: Sat 28 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Vina TheodorakopoulouBritish society is diverse, and not only in terms of faiths, ethnic backgrounds and other mostly visible differences. Neurodiversity is also a central aspect. Join us on this non-accredited course for a brief introduction to neurodiversity in society and discover how to engage with and support neurodivergent strengths.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - Disease, death and mummies in Ancient Egypt Course start date: Sat 28 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rosalind JanssenLiving and dying with disease; being buried and mummified in Ancient Egypt. What are the latest discoveries and theories? Who is carrying out this work, and what are the ethical considerations? Human remains will be explored in a museum setting.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00
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