Welcome to AccessArt: Drawing
From simple warm-up activities to longer-term projects, drawing can serve many purposes, helping learners observe and interpret what they can see, as well as what they might imagine.
Find out more about the AccessArt ethos and approach, build your understanding of drawing as an activity and as an outcome, and develop skills to help facilitate a creative and inclusive exploration of drawing in others.
Whoever you are and whichever audience you work with, we hope you’ll enjoy exploring drawing resources on AccessArt.
How does AccessArt Approach Drawing?
AccessArt aims to inspire and enable a number of key areas of exploration:
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We open up what “drawing” can be, both in terms of how we make a drawing, and the purpose of drawing.
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We balance opportunities for skill development with opportunities for novelty and experimentation.
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We build opportunities to explore how drawing relates to other disciplines and areas.
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We look at the work of other artists who use drawing in their practice.
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We build understanding of how we can progress skills in a holistic way.
Develop Your Understanding
It’s important that as artists and educators we remember that drawing, as both activity and outcome, can serve many different purposes, and can be many different things. By ensuring we embrace all that “drawing” is, we can ensure that drawing is relevant and enjoyable to as many people as possible.
Explore Drawing Materials
There are many different drawing materials to explore, and the more we explore the more we develop our sense of what drawing can be…
Watch these videos to discover a range of materials and their properties here.
You can also explore all AccessArt drawing resources by material.
dip your toes into drawing
Explore these collections of resources to help introduce drawing to your learners. All these resources can be adapted to all settings and all ages.
Ten minutes, five times a week
six week introduction to drawing
Drawable: inspired by artists
drawing for ages 3 to 11
