Life Drawing: Responding to the Human Figure - Camden Art Centre
Type
Courses & Workshops
Format
In the Building
Date 18 Jun/23 Jul 2026
Price £249/£299
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Designed for the novice and expert alike, find a new way to draw in this 6 week course, led by Orly Orbach.

This life drawing course is focused on the joy of making drawings from direct observation. Whether you are a complete beginner, want to brush up on your techniques or are looking for a quiet space to create a new body of work, you will develop techniques specifically for life drawing.

Throughout the course, participants will work through short and long poses, practice proportions and use a range of materials to capture the expressive human figure.

Each session will include warm up exercises, quick, gestural sketches and slower studies for longer poses, moving between stillness and movement to develop our drawing intuition.

Course information

This course features real life models across a variety of body types and genders. There will be elements of partial and full nudity.

Due to the nature of the course, participants must be aged 18 and over to attend.

All essential materials and resources are provided; participants are very welcome to bring in any additional material.

Participants are asked to wear clothing they don’t mind getting dirty, or stained from the materials used in the course.

The Artist

Dr Orly Orbach is a community artist, visual anthropologist and museum curator. Her multidisciplinary practice explores diverse modes of storytelling, studying people in their changing socio-cultural contexts. Drawing the human figure is an integral part of her ethnographic observations, which include museum interpretation, narrative environments and academic publishing. Trained in Communication Art and Design at the Royal College of Art and receiving a PhD in Social Anthropology from Goldsmiths University, she works with national and regional museums, community groups, libraries, schools, councils, theatre practitioners and landscape architects. Her PhD thesis about children’s latent heritage in migration explored drawing as an adaptable research tool. Her book ‘Drawing As Performance: Theatrical Games and Techniques for Visual Artists’, is published by Routledge Press.