Life Drawing Sessions in Manchester City Centre

We run our life drawing sessions throughout the year in Manchester City Centre.

It can be said that nothing fascinates us more than other people, the connection we feel when capturing their likeness. In a world full of secondary images, the process of drawing the human figure gives us a precious opportunity to sit down with somebody else and create a response to them with immediate and raw drawn marks.

Whether you intend to make drawings of the human body that are visually accurate, abstracted or exaggerated, our life drawing class offers you the opportunity to develop your perceptual skills and methods of mark-making so that you can respond swiftly and intuitively to what you see. When attending our life drawing class, you will notice that each body you come to draw is unique, and each pose under its particular conditions of light and context presents new arrangements of shapes that can only be recoded with diligent attention. There are lots of reasons to attend our in-person life drawing class, from joining our collaborative art community, a place where people of diverse backgrounds and ages come together to collectively share the experience of drawing, to a place where you can join an environment that offers a relaxing experience that is the perfect opportunity for you to wind down by calming the mind and lifting your mood, making a difference to your mental health and emotional wellbeing.

Whatever you reason for coming, our life drawing class can form the central hub of your drawing ambitions. Because drawing is not an innate ability: like all skills it is developed through practice. Anybody with a will to draw can come to our life drawing class and can learn to draw better over time. On attending, you will find practice will always take you further than natural talent alone. Given that the best figure drawings are made in the heat of an on-going exploration of the figure, the visual experience of our life drawing class means that you do not need to have any experience in drawing before attending.

So whether you’ve done this before or you are a complete beginner, by attending our life drawing class you will be presented with opportunities that will develop the core perceptual skills you need to make drawings that faithfully portray the life model.

So, what happens

in our life drawing workshops?

**Life drawing in Manchester City Centre.**

We start the session by highlighting the format of the evening, which is a selection of short poses and progressively getting longer and longer, before taking a break after the first hour. These sessions are not tutored.

Our session usually lasts for two hours, with a break after 1 hour. We provide paper and board for everyone. With an All-Material ticket, as well as paper and board, we provide a selection of drawing pencils, charcoal, pens, pastels as well as a rubber and sharpener. This is a great ticket for first timers or someone who is looking to try out life drawing, without wanting to invest and buy all the materials.