Online Portrait Club

The first rule of portrait club: Everybody sits for portrait club.

The idea is simple - when you join the portrait club Zoom session you will be welcomed by the host, then put into a group of 4-5 people. Everybody in that group takes it in turns to pose in front of the camera for 8-10 minutes while everybody else draws. By the end of the hour you will have all been drawn 3-4 times and will have made 3-4 drawings of other people. It’s a light-hearted, untutored session for all levels of experience, proving a chance to practice drawing a wide range of faces and to meet some lovely new people at the same time!

Our session leader is Emma Prothero . Emma is an artist and long-time Draw attendee who runs our weekly online Portrait Club.

Online Portrait Club Themes for Summer & Autumn:

31/07: Continuous Line

07/08: Ink

14/08: XL Portraits!

21/08: Experimental Grounds

28/08: Drawing with Straight Lines

04/09: Glasses

11/09: Sleepy Portraits

18/09: Zoom-in on Zoom

25/09: Coloured Paper

02/10: Facial Expressions

09/10: Ink

16/10: Fabric

23/10: Painted Portraits

30/10: Halloween

06/11: Colour

13/11: Warm Accessories

20/11: Cool Colours

27/11: A Thanksgiving Still Life

04/12: A Single Source of Light

11/12: Collage

18/12: Festive Accessories

01/01 - Meaningful Objects

How to join the session

The cheapest way to join Portrait club is to sign up to any paid tier of the Draw Patreon, which will give you weekly access from £4+VAT per month. Alternatively, you can book here on Eventbrite for a one-off ticket.

Draw Patreon supporters have tiered access to a wealth of Patreon resources including our extensive artist photo reference library, live online life drawing & portrait drawing classes, online recorded courses and you’ll get a concessionary rate for in-person classes at our studio. You can cancel the monthly membership at any time. For more information and to sign up click HERE.

Before the session

• Before the session, make sure you have a Zoom account and drawing materials for the class
• Check the theme for the week from the list above

• At the advertised time of the session, set yourself up to draw in front of your device, sign in to Zoom and click on the link in your email to join the class.

Looking after each other

• Please, never take photographs or screen shots of any portrait club participant

• Keep your camera ON during the session – this helps all participants feel safe and to maintain the sense of community that is so important to our classes. If you cannot turn your camera on, let the session leader know with a message at the start of the session.

After the session

• If you’d like to share your drawings with the rest of the community can post them up on the Draw Community Facebook group HERE
• You can also share your work with us on Instagram, tagging each other, the host & @draw_brighton or using the #drawbrighton hashtag.

Refunds

Please note, you can request a refund for our weekly online sessions up to 1 day before the session. Refunds will be the cost of your ticket minus the Eventbrite ticketing fee.