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Drawing from life can feel daunting, especially with the pressure to get it “right,” but there are many simple exercises that help young learners engage with it and grow in confidence. Explore resources centred on drawing from life, using close seeing and mark-making to bring faces and figures to life.
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Adapting AccessArt: Stories and Faces
A project inspired by the Exploring Identity pathway
Drawing inspired by Quentin Blake
Exaggerate limbs and posture in this exercise
Drawing cartoon characters
Create cartoon characters from life drawings
Drawing someone drawing something
Explore sketchbooks as a tool to gather visual ideas
life drawing for children
Experience being both the model and the artist
Where The Wild Things Are
Dress up as a wild thing and create drawings
drawing from a life model
A set of resources to help students draw from life
Dance and Drawing
Belinda Chapman shows how she draws moving figures
Drawing with wire
Explore how the body feels through sculpture
Portrait Club
Take turns to pose and draw portraits
Look up, Not down
Explore how it feels to create a blind portrait
Finger Palette Portraits
Make marks using fingers and hands
EXPLORING A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM: ANCIENT GREEK DRESS PORTRAITS
Create life drawings inspired by Greek costume
Drawing portraits: A class celebration!
Create large-scale portraits in pastel
Life Drawing Class: Visual Impressions
Explore line and tone, dark and light from a life model
Basic Concepts of drawing and painting
Develop drawing skills with these resources centred on life drawing
Drawings inspired by Degas
Be inspired by Degas’ fluid drawings of dancers
Dance and Drawing
Explore how to capture the body as it moves
Drawing faces
