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
Booking information:

Thursday evenings, 6.30-8.30pm. This course is for those aged 18 and over.

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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.

This course has a capacity of 12 participants.

Course information

This course is 6 weeks, taking place on Thursdays at 6.30-8.30pm. Sessions will take place on the following days:

Thursday 18 June, 6.30pm
Thursday 25 June, 6.30pm
Thursday 2 July, 6.30pm
Thursday 9 July, 6.30pm
Thursday 16 July, 6.30pm
Thursday 23 July, 6.30pm

Participants should be prepared to attend all sessions.

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.

Course tutor

Dr Orly Orbach is a community artist, visual anthropologist and museum curator.

Orly has been tutoring in art schools for over 15 years. She has taught drawing to BA students at the School of Art, Architecture and Design at London Metropolitan University, Plymouth and Maidstone and MA students at Falmouth University, UEA and LCC. Previously Head of Illustration at the School of Art, Architecture and Design at London Metropolitan University, her work received the Association of Illustrators Gold Award in Design.

Recently, Orly has led a series of drawings workshops for the anthropology department at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is currently part of the Royal College of Art led project ‘Drawing as Interdisciplinary Research’. Her book Drawing as Performance- Theatrical Games and Techniques for Visual Artists, published by Routledge Press, encapsulates some of her experience at a drawing instructor in Higher Education and the Creative Sectors in the UK.