Royal Drawing School - London

Claire Tomlinson

Really enjoyed the out of house course, Drawing London's Parks, this term with RDS. Tutors were so encouraging of my work (even though I was very out of practice) and it was great to be part of a group, being inspired by the other participants.

Rosalie Rushby-Smith

Recently completed the 10 week in-person drawing intensive and I had an absolutely brilliant experience! I feel as thought my skills improved significantly, but I also got a lot of personal growth out of it. The tutors were great and I loved getting to know the other participants, who ranged from every level and style of artistic practice! Couldn't recommend highly enough, especially to a young person who is about to embark on an arts education but wants a bit of experience first 🙂

Eloise Kirn

The Summer Drawing Marathon absolutely changed my life. I cannot recommend these studios more highly. The atmosphere, the instructors, the administrative clarity and organization were all superb.

J S

A real haven of a magical drawing school!

I love taking classes at RDS. The tutors are superb and committed. They are attentive and throw up good challenges as well as different ways of seeing. The studios are well lit, ventilated, and well heated for the models. The floors are comfortable for long standing. The whole building is welcoming and comfortable. It is also accessible. Non art staff are approachable, friendly and polite.

After having taken a drawing course at RDS 20 years ago (a fabulous experience even then), I returned last autumn to attend the Drawing and Mindfulness course. Run by three tutors, the course was an exciting mashup of ideas and influences plus meditation! One of the tutors even added a little yoga! The course was also mind expanding in terms of the many drawing challenges on offer. The whole experience also helped to loosen up my drawing practice.

This year, I have been attending the First Thursday classes. Once a month, a life drawing class is offered for free. It is hosted by one of the RDS tutors and is of the same high standard as a paid class. They are a fabulous challenge!

The school has stimulating exhibitions. They also produced a very accessible book about drawing.

RDS offers many fee concessions to make access to such great drawing courses available to as many people at possible.

Can't wait to attend another course soon!

Reem Soliman

I did the Drawing and Theory online course with Andy Pankhurst. I loved it so much! To have a 10 week routine with such a knowledgable and kind tutor like Andy is just so nourishing to anyone wanting to reconnect again in an organic way with art. A wide variety of areas were covered and you slowly start to gain confidence with the continuous drawing practice and the brilliant guidance from Andy along the way.

Aurora R

What a stunning online course! I took ‘Drawing, Collage and Poetry’ with Sophie and Rosie and got completely swept away by the engagement shown from both the teachers and the fellow students. A tight programme, a lot of exercises, inspirations, theory talks, groups discussions and very constructive feedbacks for each session. This went way further than my expectations! I can only highly recommend it! Thank you so much for this gift of a course.

Natalia Vallianou - Gourova

I had a very bad experience having attended a life drawing course this year. The poses were very short and the tutoring was absent. The fact of short poses is something very necessary to be explained in advance. Lecturing is not helpful at all in a life drawing course, only real tutoring is. What is more, there was no willingless to find some solution from the administration team for at least providing a chance to taste another course to allow me not tp loose my time and money for nothing. Overall the course was a bad experience. I lost my time and money for nothing.

Peter Voss-Knude

A very useful ressource for developing the art of drawing as a means for discovery and not just mimicry. Very attentive tutoring, meaningful exercises and well thought out structure to make the best of the online format. Also a pleasure to work with a group of artists based around the globe. Thanks!