Life Drawing Short Course - Camden Art Centre
Type
Courses & Workshops
Format
In the Building
Date Thu 19 Nov–Thu 10 Dec 2026
Duration 4 weeks
Price £229
Book

Try your hand at life drawing through this four week course.

Led by tutor Orly Orbach, this life drawing course is focused on the joy of making drawings from the observation.

Participants will have the chance to try a range of materials to capture the human figure, including pencil, ink, charcoal and ‘reverse drawings’ – using pencil erasures.

This short course is suitable for complete beginners, as well at those who wish to develop their techniques.

Each session will include warm up exercises, quick gestural sketches and slower studies of longer poses. The class will study how to work with still postures, movement and proportion.

Students will come away having developed their drawing skills, intuition and confidence.

Course information

This course takes place over 4 weeks:

Thursday 19 November 2026
Thursday 26 November 2026
Thursday 3 December 2026
Thursday 10 December 2026

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

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.

Participants must be 18 or over.

Classes are capped at 12 participants to ensure students can receive individual attention from the tutor.

Student discount and concessionary prices are available for this workshop. As per our concessions policy, customers are required to submit evidence of eligibility. Please visit our policy page to find out more.

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.