Draw from life. For life.
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer, and clearer still. The image is passing through you in a physiological way, into your brain, into your memory— where it stays—it’s transmitted by your hands... it’s a deep, deep desire to—depict.”
Cut Trees – Timber, 2008. Charcoal on paper, 66 x 102.2cm
David Hockney
Our Drawing Year students create hundreds of drawings each year. Explore our archive and be inspired...
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Sunburn
One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night
Infinity pool or how to disappear
Heads
Cactus
Scarborough Seagulls
Lost in Reflection
Series 8
Sunburn
Coloured pencil on paper, 29.5 × 24 cm, 2024
One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night
Gouache on paper, 60x60cm, 2015
Infinity pool or how to disappear
Oil on primed paper, 53 x 39cm, 2019
Heads
Pencil on paper, 41.5 x 29.7 cm, 2016
Cactus
Gouache and wax crayon on paper, 42 x 59.5 cm, 2016
Scarborough Seagulls
Ink on paper, 42 x 29.5 cm, 2016
Lost in Reflection
Coloured pencil on paper, 70 × 50 cm, 2024
Series 8
Oil, Charcoal and Pencil on Paper, 53 x 32, 2015
About us
We are the independent, artist-led and not-for-profit home of observational drawing. We exist to ensure artists and creatives everywhere can access world-leading skills-based drawing tuition regardless of background, age or circumstances; to bring new audiences to drawing; to champion our practice for this generation and the next.
