Autumn Term Drop-ins

Drop-in sessions are available throughout Autumn Term from 16 September until 23rd November. All studio courses are first-come, first-served, so just turn up and pay on the day. Online drop-ins are bookable in advance.

Contact the Public Courses team if you'd like more information at admin@royaldrawingschool.org.

Mondays

Free Life Drawing for Art Students

6.30–9pm, Shoreditch Studios (4th Floor), Free for art students

This course gives art students the opportunity for regular life drawing in the studio and is structured to complement the Friday evening free drawing for art students at The National Gallery. Open to full–time registered BA Fine Art or Foundation art students. The evening operates on a first-come first-served basis. Please bring student ID as proof of status

Free Etching for Art Students
6.30–9pm, RDS Print Room, Free for art students

Etching is seen as an extension of drawing. This class offers the opportunity for art students to learn and explore various etching techniques. The class is only open to full-time registered BA or foundation art students and is suitable for all levels. Places are limited and the class operates on a first-come first-served basis. Materials are available to purchase at a reduced price. Please bring student ID as proof of status

Digital Studio Courses
1-2pm, 6.30-8.30pm, Online, £9.5 per Lunchtime session, £20.5 per Evening session

Our Digital Studio allows you to join our community in real time, via live-stream technology, from wherever you are. Experience our tutor-guided lunchtime and evening drawing sessions with live model, broadcast from our studios in London, using specialist filming equipment allowing perspectives only possible online.

Fridays

Drawing at the National Gallery (Free for Art Students)
6–8.30pm, National Gallery, £17 per session / Free for Art Students
Tutors: Andy Pankhurst, Susan Wilson

Drawing from art at The National Gallery is an opportunity to make an intensive study of a particular artist or painting, this is not a course in copying but rather transcription; translating what you observe into your own drawing. These sessions are open to the public but also give London art students the opportunity for free, regular tutored drawing in The National Gallery and are structured to complement the Free Life Drawing for Art Students in Shoreditch on Monday evenings. With the complementary activities of drawing from life and from paintings students develop their work. The meeting point every week will be Room 9. Please bring student ID as proof of status. For Public Students Please bring cash to pay for the session, as the tutor will not have a card machine.

Friday Etching Drop-in
10.30am–5pm, RDS Print Room, £28 per session / £14 for Alumni

Untutored session for Drawing Year students, alumni and experienced print-making students (upon recommendation of a tutor).

Saturdays

Saturday Life Drawing
10am–4pm, Shoreditch Studios (Ground Floor)
Tutors: Henry Gibbons Guy, Sharon Brindle
£45 Full-Day & £23 Half-Day session

There will be a different model each week with a variety of poses, both long and short, and students will be given individual guidance as they work. Open to all levels.

Half day timings

Morning session: 10am - 1pm
Afternoon session: 2pm - 4pm

Free charcoal is provided in studios. Paper is available to purchase in the studios at a cost price.

Saturday Etching
11am–4pm, RDS Print Room, £28 per session / £14 for Alumni