Drawversity Clothed Photo-set: Tendai (Patreon)

Here is our first clothed photo-set from Tendai, who modelled for our live portrait drawing session earlier this month. Happy Drawing!

About the model

• You can follow Tendai on Instagram HERE 
• You can watch Tendai's portrait recording HERE 

About Drawversity

The Drawversity photo-set series some from our second artist-led photo shoot, this time conceived and directed by Jade Hylton. Jade invited models who wouldn't normally pose for life and portrait drawing as part of her Drawversity initiative, our programme for encouraging more diversity in the life modelling community. Our live Drawversity drawing sessions create a supportive environment where people of colour who might want to model for artists are invited to pose for a class clothed, semi-clothed or unclothed for any length of time that they feel comfortable; they are then offered further opportunities to model if they've enjoyed the experience. The Drawversity photo shoot became an extension of those live classes, providing 5 people who responded to Jade's open call for models to experience posing for photos to inspire your work. As always the photos were shot by Olly Hearsey at The Brighton Studio.

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Use the Draw Patreon Navigator to find any of our past photosets and take a look at our blogs on how to gather, manipulate and translate photo reference.

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Guidelines for using the photographs

Please do:

• Download these pictures to your own computers and devices, downloading the Zip files for all images, or saving individual photos.
• Use the pictures to draw, paint, print and sculpt from, being as realistic or creative as you like.
• Share the artwork you’ve made with us and the world - in books, in exhibitions, on social media, or on your fridge.
• Tag us in work you make (@drawbrighton / #drawbrighton) – you don’t have to, but we love to see what you’ve made!
• Edit the photo files as reference for your own drawings - you can change the contrasts, colours and backgrounds to provide more tailored reference for yourself.

Please don't:

• Share these photographs with anybody else – they are between you and us
• Share the photos themselves online – thanks for respecting our models’ privacy
• Edit the photo files themselves for artwork – we want to see original work you’ve made

Thanks!