Bill Wright

Enhance your ability to portray authentic people and locations through this course based on London's cafe culture. The focus: capturing with pen, pencil or brush the buzz of human activity set in rich architectural settings. Fieldwork in street cafes, espresso bars and restaurants is interspersed with more reflective studio time and discussions of technique, point of view, body language, overlapping/moving subjects and composition. Tricks of perspective and 'guerilla drawing' that simplify capturing scenes in public are also reviewed. In each session, cafes in another of London's fascinating neighbourhoods will be explored. Studio time includes individual and group critiques but also allows the development of field sketches in greater depth or in other media - for example, turning line drawings into water-colour paintings or collages. Beginners and accomplished artists alike should benefit from immersion in the dynamic atmosphere of London's cafe society - from everyday to chic - where subjects and settings are ideal for artistic interpretation. Allow a small budget for cups of tea!

Bill Wright is a practising artist and has taught drawing, illustration and design in the US and UK. He currently teaches on the illustration pathway of BA (Hons) Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins.