Before going into anatomy or perspective, it’s really important to understand something that many of the best artists emphasise repeatedly. There isn’t a ‘correct’ approach to life drawing. Everyone has their own style, and that style will itself constantly evolve. You are doing things right when you are having fun and feel satisfied that […]

Making the Draw Life Beautifully online course, we had a lot of fun and a sense of satisfaction from a job well done. One benefit we hadn’t envisaged was how much our own drawings and confidence would improve as we made it. In this podcast, we discuss the major lessons we each learned from making […]

Edit: there should now be an audio player at the top of this page, where you can hear the article. Why is it important to draw with your whole arm? Drawing with your arm rather than just wrist and hand can be a great way to achieve clean and flowing lines – the types of lines that […]

Francis Bowyer is an award winning artist, former president of the Royal Watercolour Society, life drawing teacher, and most importantly a friendly and generous guy. You can see a bio for him here. He kindly agreed to be interviewed for the Love Drawing podcast. During the interview he told us about what role life drawing […]

To continue our series on portraits, I interviewed Simon Tolhurst about the subject. He has a real knack for teaching, so I hope you find this podcast useful. Check out his site – http://simontolhurst.co.uk/ Simon recently exhibited some of his portraits: Just before the podcast, Simon did a quick drawing of me, to give him food […]

Edit: I give the website for the Bellamys incorrectly in the podcast – their website is bellamysgallery.com My wife and I have been on holiday in New Zealand for the last three weeks, which was amazing. The only downside, I thought, was that I wouldn’t have a chance to add anything to lovelifedrawing for ages. […]

Joe Simpson is our guest on this episode of the Love Drawing podcast. Joe gave us some great insights into how he developed his distinctive style, his process for painting and drawing and other observations about creating beautiful artwork, so I think you’ll all really enjoy this episode. Joe’s work speaks for itself – there […]

This was a great and very informative podcast with Simon Tolhurst, life drawing teacher and artist. He provides great tips and insights about life drawing, as well as talking about his own experiences as an artist. I have no doubt this will be really interesting and useful to a lot of people, and I hope […]

Hi everyone, I’m excited to release the first Love Drawing podcast. This first one is with myself and Mayko (see many of her drawings in the Gallery). In the coming weeks, we’ve got some really exciting guests lined up, so please watch this space! They’ll be released once every one or two weeks. In this […]