Student working on a collage

The Royal Drawing School sees the imagination as an essential component of observational drawing. Several courses are offered which encourage the student to relate to the subject of their drawing in an imaginative and personal way. This can help students find focus in a drawing, or to experience more keenly the need to respond to what is in front of them. Courses such as Drawing a Story use a written narrative as the starting point for working in the studio with a life model. The experience of making highly charged imaginative drawings of a live model inform subsequent interactions with the figure in other contexts.