Drawing Techniques & Processes
Drawing underpins all art disciplines, and at City Lit, we offer a range of creative, hands-on Drawing courses to suit all levels of student experience from beginners to more experienced students and to encourage creativity and development of drawing skills for all.
Our courses are taught by professional artists who bring their wealth of experience and their specialist knowledge to enrich the student experience and to help students progress into their chosen art discipline while putting the subject into a historical and contemporary context.
Courses range from Start Drawing - for absolute beginners, through Drawing 1 and Drawing 2 for further development of skills and knowledge, and on to specialist drawing skills courses, where students can further explore more experimental and expressive skills in their own drawing projects.
For more information about courses available, please contact our Visual Arts team on visualarts@citylit.ac.uk
- Drawing: colour pastel techniques
Course start date: Thu 13 Nov 2025 (and 3 other dates)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Diane MartinExplore 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 - 50 drawings in a day Course start date: Sun 23 Nov 2025 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rod JudkinsA high energy programme of directed and self-directed drawing projects, with rapid shifts in materials, scale, subject and focus. Strictly no discards - come ready to play, risk, invent and discuss. For those with some drawing experience.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £129.00 - Drawing for beginners Course start date: Mon 24 Nov 2025 (and 7 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Eleanor BedlowExplore 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 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 2 Course start date: Mon 12 Jan 2026 (and 7 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Brian SayersBuild your confidence in tackling more personal, complex drawings. Further explore observational drawing and visual language. Develop your drawing skills by working with different approaches and exploring a range of artists' drawing process.Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £359.00 Concession £292.00 - Drawing 1 Course start date: Tue 13 Jan 2026 (and 6 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 - Drawing and painting from the imagination Course start date: Thu 15 Jan 2026 (and 3 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 - Drawing 3 Course start date: Thu 15 Jan 2026 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Andrea VoiseyExplore a range of materials and challenging approaches to develop your creative potential in drawing, informed by artists contexts. Building on your previous experience, develop your observational drawing skills for greater accuracy and complexity as well as learning to manipulate composition, surface and mark-making to create dynamic, expressive drawings.Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £359.00 Concession £292.00 - 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 - Drawing: focus on space and depth Course start date: Fri 6 Feb 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Amanda BrackenExplore the potential of perspective, layering, light and shade to create space and depth in a drawing. By experimenting with different drawing mediums play with the picture plane in a drawing to achieve an illusion of depth. Using observational drawing make a still life come alive through the play of contrast and cast shadows.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Drawing into painting Course start date: Sat 21 Feb 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Adam HennesseyGain an understanding of the creative journey from a drawing to finished painting. Explore the creative potential when drawing and painting activities are combined.Full fee £389.00 Senior fee £311.00 Concession £253.00 - Drawing for beginners: intensive Course start date: Tue 31 Mar 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Andrea VoiseyLearn and develop basic drawing skills on this thorough and intensive course. Each day will focus on an aspect of drawing, covering key concepts such as line, tone, composition and mark making. Ideal if you have little or no drawing experience.Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00 - Drawing: a contemporary approach Course start date: Sat 23 May 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Take your drawing in exciting new directions – build on existing skills and discover new ways of working. A chance to extend your own drawing projects guided by our expert tutor and practising artist, with reference to the work of artists using drawing in the wider art world today.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Drawing: perspective techniques and approachesCourse start date: Wed 24 Jun 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Amanda BrackenExplore the practical and creative use of perspective through a series of lively exercises. This course introduces the basic principles used to visualise objects and spaces, as well as creative methods of using perspective to exploit depth and space in a drawing.
Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Drawing: old master techniques Course start date: Mon 13 Jul 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Look back at the drawing techniques and materials used by the Old Masters of the Renaissance period. Working to set exercises, explore drawing materials used by significant artists of this time, using their methods to practise and develop your own drawing skills.
Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00
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