Author: London Art College
I remember submitting my first assignment for the Illustration Course, I was so nervous. I had never studied art before, and I didn’t know what to expect. I come from a background in which art is seen as a waste…
Welcome to our weekend challenge and today it is all about sky and clouds. We all have access to look up at some point in the day wherever you are in the world. Whether is is a beautiful blue sky,…
Welcome to the results of this weeks art challenge on the theme of Wild Flowers. We knew that this would be a popular theme, however we didn’t realise how much enjoyment you would all gain from this wonderful subject. You…
I have enrolled in the Digital Illustration course (a gift from my husband), in the hopes of expanding my artistic style as well as learning about the technical aspects of drawing digitally. Although I come with some experience (well self…
Two stunning illustrations today by student Layla Ewen who is studying the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course with tutor Maggy Roberts. We not only love her very three dimensional Fiery Fred painting, but we adore Laylas frog lazing on the…
Lauren Sandall has completed a lovely first set of typographic work for the Graphic Design Art Diploma Course. Tutor Vanessa weaver was thrilled to receive them as are we to be able to show them here on the blog. We…
Welcome to this weekends art challenge all about wild flowers. Some of the photos below were taken on a woodland track in the wilds of west Wales, others are stock photos all free to use. You can draw or paint…
Welcome to the results of our latest weekend art challenge. We set our students this week, the task of creating artwork around the theme of Strawberries. Our students have had a wonderful time in creating and probably eating, plenty of…
Student Emily Hemmings has submitted her first set of work on the Graphic Design Art Course and produced a terrific set of illustrations for a tourist brochure. Emily has also put together some very effective concept boards, which were a…
Anne-Sophie Laugier submitted this very impressive illustration as her response to the Fiery Fred brief on the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. Sophie also took a photo of the painting with her watercolour pallet which is absolutely beautiful! We would…
Rosy Davis created these two superb pieces of artwork for the first assignment on the Graphic Design Art course. At this stage, Rosie was learning about perspective and these are her two pen and ink illustrations as examples for this….
Welcome to our very summery weekend art challenge. This week, we would love for you to be creative with strawberries. It’s the height of the strawberry season and you may be lucky enough to have some growing in your garden,…
Welcome to our big announcement! The London Art College yearly competition is now OPEN! Students can submit ONE piece of artwork they have created. It doesn’t have to be a course work piece. The artwork can be in any medium…
Welcome to the results of ‘The Scream’ art challenge. This time we set our students the task of creating their own version – or own take on the Edvard Munch painting ‘The Scream’. We hope that you are all as…
Caroline Richards has completed the Graphic Design Course course and passed with an overall Distinction grade. Caroline has designed a beautiful poster which you can see below, along with her sketches and mockups of how the poster developed. Caroline sent this…
Ian Dance, a student from the Learn to Draw Course has created two lovely drawings in pen. Tutor Monika Cilmi was delighted with his work and we are thrilled to be able to show them on the blog today. The…
Student Sara Sykes has just completed the Illustration Diploma Course with a Distinction. Tutor Steven Hersey said that the distinction grade was well deserved and her work on the course was outstanding. We have added three images below, the first…
Welcome to our weekend art challenge. A very different idea today sparked by student Mila Zinzen. ‘Mila’s idea is to ‘Make your interpretation of a well-known piece of art and for everyone to do the same piece’. After lots of…
Welcome to the results of this weekends art challenge. We set our students the task of creating a mandala or two! Students seem to have loved this idea and found the whole process very relaxing and meditative. So many beautiful…
Sean Cocker is currently working towards completing the Botanical Coloured Pencil Course with tutor Ida Mitrani. Seans illustrations below are absolutely stunning and we hope that you enjoy viewing them as much as we have. If you are interested in…
Audrey Quinton studied our Cartooning Diploma Course with tutor John Byrne. Audrey has just got in touch, as one of her stunning cartoons has been published in a booklet called ‘Fit For Farming‘. You can read about it online and…
I changed my path at college level from illustration to 3D Design., This gave me a wonderful career but I hope to finish what I started with Illustration. I also wish to learn more to be able to illustrate the…
Welcome to this weekends art challenge. Mandalas. What are Mandalas you ask? Wikipedia describes them as ‘a geometric configuration of symbols’. They can be a very precise circles with a matching configurations of patterns or conversely they can be a…
Welcome to our latest art challenge where we asked our students to set about creating a ‘triptych’ as our weekend challenge. A Triptych is a set of three pieces of artwork with a theme running through them, or an image…
Student Gayathri G is studying on our Illustration Diploma Course with tutor Steven Hersey. In one of the assignments on the course students are asked to design and redesign some logos. Gayathri created a number of stunning logo designs, including…
Welcome to our blog post today, dedicated to photography student David Feakes. He passed with flying colours this week with a distinction and tutor Rona Cox was delighted. The photos below show two from the portraiture window light tasks, one…
Today we have two beautiful watercolour paintings by student Sylvia Kendrick who is working on our Watercolour Diploma Course with tutor Ida Mitrani. Sylvia has traditionally painted a stunning flower painting entitled ‘Flowers from my Garden’ and a still life…
Welcome to our latest weekend art challenge. This time we would like you to create a Triptych. Students can create one long image split into three, or alternatively three separate images with a definite theme. The painting below by Simon…
Welcome to the results of our latest weekend art challenge. We set students the task of choosing to draw or paint anything that involved warm colours. We were once again delighted with the creativity that our students have shown this…
These beautiful Illustrations are from Gillian Ofodile, who has taken the same subject matter and applied her interpretation of realistic, loose, graphic, collage and retro illustration styles to it. Some lovely experimentation with different styles of illustration. Vanessa WeaverGraphic Design Art…
Having never studied art online, I was a little apprehensive as to how much I would learn, but was truly impressed by the quality and content offered in the watercolour course. I found the assignments fun, yet challenging too. My tutor…
A lovely collection of paintings today by Landscape student Jackie Davies who is being guided with painting and drawing landscapes by tutor Alan Dedman. We hope that Jackie’s use of beautiful soft shades of blues and yellows inspire you to…
We would like our students this week to come up with a piece of artwork which celebrates the use of warm colours. We are thinking about oranges, yellows, golds, reds, peaches and sandy colours. The subject you paint or draw…
Welcome to our weekend challenge set last weekend on the theme of Pandas. We have received a phenomenal amount of Panda artwork! Each and everyone one being beautifully creative and we can see that our students really embraced the theme…
For this exercise I used some decorative objects of my toilet sink.At first, it was a little bit challenging but after the final image popped up to my mind, I could cleary see what was requested. Roberta Goncalves da silvaIllustrating…
We have a simply superb collection of paintings today by our Pet Portraits Diploma Course students. We thought it would be lovely to celebrate our animal painting students and also provide some inspiration to our readers too. If you have…
Student Ana Munoz was nominated by tutor Monica Cilmi for an ABCC certificate of merit for her work on the Chinese Brush Painting Course. You can also see Ana’s certificate above and at the bottom of the page along with…
Welcome to this weekends art challenge. We would love for you to create artwork around the cutest animal on the earth…a Panda Bear! We have left this challenge fairly open, so our students can create either a realistic painting or…
Welcome to the wonderful results of our latest weekend challenge all about illustrating song lyrics. This challenge was thanks to Beckie Andrews who created this beautiful illustration below celebrating the song by Ocean Colour Scene – Travellers Tune. Also special…
My name is Rachel and I have just completed assignment 5 for the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. I found it to be the most difficult so far. Especially as I love working in colour! I had no idea at the…
Thanks for asking me to write a little about my ‘Row Your Boat’ illustration for part one of the Children’s Book Illustration Diploma Course with Maggie Roberts as Tutor. As you can see I’ve used quite strong, warm colours to…
Welcome to our new weekend art challenge. Student Beckie Andrews came up with a lovely idea for this weekends challenge. She would love for you all to draw or paint lyrics from your favourite song. We don’t really have many…
Welcome to our weekend challenge all about Marine Life. WOW! What an amazing array of paintings and drawings we have received from our students this week. We are stunned by the quality of every single piece. They are all so…
These pictures were produced by Kyrah Smith in her assignment 5 work. I yesterday assessed them, together with the preparation studies, and thought they were lovely examples of imaginative and skilful digital illustration, with great drama and atmosphere. Steven HerseyIllustration…
Here is some work from Caroline Richards, who has designed some lovely teabag packaging. It really captures a theme of relaxation and calm and has shown terrific continuity of style around all faces of the pack. Vanessa WeaverGraphic Design Art…
Student Evgeniya Sheshina has completed the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course and passed with a distinction. Tutor Paul weaver said…. Evgeniya is very talented, especially with her drawing. Lots of stunning pieces below. Paul WeaverDrawing and Painting Diploma Course
Welcome to our weekend challenge all about marine life. Something a little different this week. We would love for you to have fun with shape and colour, texture and form, wet in wet washes, bold strokes and soft shades… the…
Welcome to the results of this weeks art challenge. The feedback from all of our students was incredible. From the sounds of it, the challenge was one of the most enjoyable to date! Scroll down to take a look at…
When I first read the assignment, I wondered what I was going to be able to draw. And finally I never thought that the space under a sink, an ordinary place, would be such a fascinating source of inspiration for…
I complete my Watercolour Diploma in January. I had a great time during the course and my tutor Jem was fantastic with his constructive feed back, his timely advice and encouragement. I really felt supported throughout. I recently looked back…
I chose the Editorial Illustration option for this set of work on the Graphic Design in art course. My first thought on reading the description was of the portraits produced by Giuseppe Arcimboldo using fruit and vegetables. However, I started…
We have a very calming challenge for you this week. Sit back and relax and do some designing and drawing at your desk or kitchen table. We would like you to illustrate your name – or your initial. We have…
Welcome to the latest results of our weekend art challenge. A couple of weeks ago we set our students a challenge to take a photo of themselves in a mirror. You can see how the students got on here –…
Danielle Kantola has just completed the Watercolour Diploma Course with tutor Ida Mitrani. We have includes some of Danielle’s artwork below along with a lovely testimonial too. We hope you find Danielle’s watercolours inspiring. I really enjoyed the course and…
List of priorities to focus on for this assignment Have a focal point Develop the painting in stages- darkening tone as you go Use tonal variation to show the contrast in tones Use tonal variation to suggest recession in the…
I was flattered to be invited to contribute to the LCA blog and share some of my recent pieces of work, alongside some of my coursework. Inspired by TV, movies and comics, I’ve loved creating sci-fi and fantasy characters for…
Welcome to our latest art challenge which is a continuation from last week. We would like you to paint or draw your photo from last weeks challenge. I hear you say, ‘What? We have to draw or paint our photo?’…
Welcome to the results of our Photo in a Mirror art challenge! Wow! The results are absolutely incredible. We are thrilled not only to see our students, but also to see how creative they can be with their cameras! We…
I recently started the Illustrating Children’s Diploma course with Maggy Roberts and submitted my first assignment about a week ago where I received very encouraging feedback from our tutor (“excellent work”). It was a very inspiring and bright exercise to do,…
We would like to send Sabina Rahmanova our heartiest congratulations on recently passing her Drawing and Painting Diploma Course with a distinction. Congratulation Sabina! We have added some of Sabina’s artwork below for our students to be inspired by. We…
London Art College student Christine Emery has just completed the Botanical Art Coloured Pencil Course with flying colours. We have added two beautiful pieces which were created by Christine for her course below. Congratulations on passing! We wish you all…
Welcome to our new weekend challenge – ‘photo in a mirror’. We are partnering with our lovely Photography tutor Rona Cox who set this challenge for her own students this week. We would love it if our students could take…
We hope that everyone had a lovely Easter, although it was probably a lot different for many people this year. The Easter theme definitely generated lots of lovely and happy illustrations and paintings. One of our favourites is the lovely…
Welcome to the beautiful artwork of student Anna Noel Storr who is studying on the Beginners Drawing Course with tutor Monica Cilmi. Monica said… The composition of Anna’s artwork is very simple but each drawing works extremely well. Her drawing…
The following has been written by our tutor Rona Cox for her photography students, however we thought that in general it would be good advice for all of our students on other courses as there are ‘ways and means’ of…
Student Olga Polyanska has created three stunning watercolours for a set of assignments for the Drawing & Painting Diploma course with tutor Paul Weaver. We absolutely love them and were thrilled when Paul asked for them to be shown here….
Tutor Monica Cilmi has a superb student called Julie Cook who is currently working on the Coloured Pencil Drawing Course. As you can see by viewing Julie’s work below the course is very varied in the subjects that you can…
Welcome to our weekend challenge. As it’s Good Friday and Easter weekend we thought it would be appropriate to have an Easter challenge for all of our students to enjoy. Ideas! You could paint or draw all of your Easter…
Welcome to our springtime art challenge. We have received some beautiful pieces of artwork this week for our challenge which has brightened everyones day and lifted the spirits of our students! The lovely happy colours used in the artwork below…
The Getty Museum is asking people to recreate artwork using random house objects. As self-isolation is becoming the new norm and people are getting bored, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles challenged their Twitter followers to recreate a…
We have two stunning illustrations today by Emma Hasson who is currently working through the Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma course with tutor Maggy Roberts. Maggy asked us to show Emma’s artwork on the blog as it is a wonderful answer…
Welcome to the beautiful step by step watercolour flower blossoms by student Maria Ei Zar. Maria’s painting style is so delicate, beautiful and fresh. We hope that you find her work inspiring! Maria said… I love this kind of flowers…
Welcome to this weeks artwork challenge. As the clocks have sprung forward and we are now officially into Summer Time – although clearly it isn’t quite summer yet here in the UK, we would like you to draw on the…
We are absolutely loving this weeks collection of artwork – so varied and up-lifting. We were aiming for a cheery theme this week and we really hope all of these beautiful paintings and drawings make you smile. Thank you to…
We were thrilled to receive some wonderful images from student Anne-Sophie Laugier. We love her ‘in progress’ photo of her workspace and sketches. Anne-Sophie is studying with Maggy Roberts on the Illustrating Children’s Diploma course. If students have any in…