Category: Student Artwork
These posts show student artwork from our Online Art Courses and the artwork that students produce while working on them. Learning how to paint or draw, graphic design, colour theory, Chinese brush painting, history of art …and more!
This has to be one of my favourite illustrations in recent weeks to land in my email inbox from tutor Maggy Roberts! It’s by student Elena Statham who is studying with Maggy on the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. I have…
Do we have any budding graphic designers and digital illustrators here? If we do, Debbies’ artwork should be of interest to you! Debbie Moylan created these pieces for an assignment on the Graphic Design Art Diploma Course and worked on…
Adele Gregory visited the beach and coastline for one of her assignments on the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course as you can see below. We have added two of Adele’s artwork and we absolutely love the shell study. Isn’t it…
Two bright and happy digital illustrations today by London Art College student Denise Wood who is studying on our Digital Illustration Course. The illustrations show two very different techniques, one outline and flat colours to create the form of the…
Jue James has created three versions of this particular layout of daffodil studies for one of her assignments on the Botanical Painting course. The first is a simple pen and ink with stipple for shading detail. The second is the…
Angela Service has created a lovely pen and ink drawing from life of a collection of items from her kitchen for one of the assignments on the Learn To Draw Course. This course is excellent for beginners or for…
We absolutely love Dean’s illustration below. How wonderfully happy, colourful and bright – perfect for a children’s story book. Dean Jones created this for his assignment on the Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma and we hope our illustrating students find it…
We have some superb cartoons for todays blog post by Cartooning Diploma student Chris Jaffe. We probably should have posted the first illustration last Christmas! It is a very well thought out design and your eye first goes to the sprouts…
This weeks Spooky Saturday Illustration is by student Paula Prestwood.
Lots of artwork today from student Craig Waterworth. Craig created these pieces while studying on our Science Fiction and Fantasy Course with tutor John Byrne. The artwork is extremely creative and we are thrilled to be able to include it…
The pantings today are by student Alan Caswell who created these two beautiful pieces of artwork for an assignment on the Landscape Diploma Course. Alan has titled each painting ‘End of a Good day’ and ‘Garden’. We particularly like the…
Three beautiful and bright pastel drawings today by student Ann Edwards who has been working towards her certificate on the Pastel Painting Course. We love the bold colours and mark making that Ann has achieved here in her studies from life….
Two stunning pieces of artwork today from Pet Portraits Diploma Course student Alison Croft. The cat portrait below has been created using coloured pencils and it beautiful. Alison has captured the detail of the fur beautifully. Shading white fur is…
Student Pete Levey participated in testing Derwents new graphite pencils last year and we are now able to add his results here on our blog. We have added his artwork along with the blog post he did for Derwent last…
We have received two wonderful photos of student Archana Bahri Khanna, the moment she received her certificate from her postie! We are absolutely thrilled to see them and add them to our blog. If you have received your diploma in the…
Having completed the Watercolour Painting Course with Jem Bowden I was delighted to receive the College Diploma. The whole Course was very instructive an d stimulating. The main messages I took form the tuition was that a successful watercolour is…
We are thrilled to be able to show a Sebastians Sink City illustration on our blog today written and illustrated by student Priscilla Hocking. Sebastian’s Sink City Sebastian was a huge challenge for me. I enjoy looking at it now…
I’m a former student of the Children’s Book Illustration course, graduating with Distinction. I thoroughly enjoyed the course and the tuition with Maggy Roberts was first class, she was very positive and constructive and I always looked forward to seeing…
These are Lucie Cerna’s responses to two drawing based tasks. The Graphics course starts out with a number of drawing based Study Units that look at composition, mark making and tone. Lucie has shown great awareness of these in two…
If you remember last year, prior to our Christmas countdown, we announced a new feature on the blog called Spooky Saturday Illustrations! We will be posting students spooky artwork from the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. Tutor Maggy Roberts receives…
Tutor Alan Dedman has sent us over two batches of student artwork from his Oils Painting Diploma course. Alan is thrilled with the artwork and has said the following…… Both students showed a good attitude towards experimenting and playing with…
Ann Jordan has recently finished the Botanical coloured pencil course and we have added two of Ann’s botanical pieces below for everyone to see – and be inspired by. Tutor Ida Mitrani said…. Beautiful and promising artwork. I wish Ann a…
We hope you enjoy today’s artwork by student Cherry Ferris. I think this has to be our favourite Robin illustration so far! Isn’t it beautiful!!
A beautiful illustration of Mistletoe for todays blog post, painted by student Cherry Ferris.
Happy New Year to all of our students and readers of our blog! We hope 2018 is a fabulous and creative time for you all. The cartoon below has been Illustration by Alfred Reid.
An extra blog post today as we have received so many wonderful festive images this year. This pastel drawing of a Robin is by student Alison McIlkenny!
Angela’s illustration of the the little girl making a snowman is wonderful. We love her red coat, it all looks very festive. Visit Angela’s Instagram page to see more of Angela’s illustrations.
More festivities with a beautiful Christmas wreath painting by student Elena Statham.
We would like to wish all of our students and readers of our blog a very Merry Christmas. We hope you have a wonderful day! Thank you so student Leila Nabih for letting us use her wonderful illustration today!
We hope that you are all ready for Christmas, you have wrapped all of your gifts and they are tucked safely under your Christmas tree. We have added one of our favourite illustrations today that was submitted for this years…
We are carol singing our way through day 23 of our festive countdown with the help of Leila Nabih illustration!
What a wonderful illustration for todays festive countdown by Leila Nabih.
‘Happy Holidays’ artwork today on day 20 of our festive countdown by student Debra Gibson.
Student Monica Bonvicini created this Christmas illustration along with a quote from Helen Keller. It means “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much”. Beautiful.
Santa is on his way…….! Fabulous painting by student Inari Johnson for todays day 18 of the festive countdown.
Leila Nabih has painted this beautiful illustration and we are thrilled to be able to show it on our blgo for todays day 17 countdown. We hope you like it as much as we do!
We put forward a number of students artwork for this years ABCCs Christmas card and Rachel Shelley’s illustration was chosen! We are thrilled for her and so pleased to be able to add it to day 16 of our festive blog.
This is a wonderful painting of a snowman, perfect for our Christmas countdown! It was created by student Elena Statham.
Are you nearly ready to catch a glimpse of Rudolph…..? Painting by student Robert Wilkinson.
Stand to attention for today’s Christmas countdown! Painted by student Elena Statham.
Day 12 of our countdown is a beautiful and colourful wreath watercolour painting by student Elena Statham.
We ‘LOVE’ Angela’s snowman illustration…we hope you do too! Visit Angela’s Instagram page to see more of Angela’s artwork.
A penguin adorns our festive countdown for day 9 painted by Elena Statham. Isn’t his hat wonderful! We all love it and hope you do too!
We are ice skating our way through day 8 of our countdown, with a fabulous illustration by Angela Waston.
A beautiful wreath painted by student Elena Statham. Aren’t the cones wonderful! An incredible painting for day 7!
For day 5 of our countdown, we have a fabulous digital illustration sent to us by tutor Monique Bailey. Her student Emily Kent created it for one of her assignments and we love it!
A lovely wintery painting to warm our hearts of a beautiful Robin painting by student Beatrice Giacomini.
Our festive countdown continues today with a stunning illustration by student Jamie Ann Walton.
Day 2 of our Christmas Countdown is a beautiful illustration by student Angela Watson. You can visit Angela Instagram page to see more of her work at the link below. https://www.instagram.com/angelaruthwatson/
Our Christmas countdown is being started this year by student Elena Statham! A festive wreath to welcome everyone into the wonderful month of December!
Tutor Alan Dedman is currently manning his show in London and so will be away until the 4th of December. We apologise for any delayed critiques during this time. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to email us….
Hello, I’m Nahrain Michael from Erbil/ Iraq, I have recently finished my Graphic Design Diploma with a distinction and I’m so thrilled to accomplish this success with one of art fields that I admire and was so keen to learn….
Tutor John Byrne emailed us this selection of cartoons to include on the blog. He was so impressed by one of his students Jos Mascarenhas, and felt that Jos had work extremely well throughout the course. Jos has now completed…
Getting the week off to a flying start with an illustration by student Heidi Lingard. Tutor Maggy Roberts sent it to us for inclusion on the blog and we all feel it is wonderful. Looking forward to seeing more illustrations from…
We are starting a new feature this week called…Spooky Saturday Illustration. Other than the month of our Christmas countdown in December, we will be posting student artwork from the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course Every Saturday. Tutor Maggy Roberts receives many…
We have a wonderful collection of watercolour studies and paintings by student Tessa Baker. Tess has been working on a project studying flamingos and their habitat for one of her assignments. We thought it would be really interesting for our students…
Student Samantha Wing is studying on the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. She emailed us her wonderfully colourful illustration, which was inspired by her two children. We are really looking forward to seeing more of Samantha’s work and also adding…
Tutor Maggy Roberts sent us some wonderful illustrations from student Sian Brown which we have added below. Read what Sian sent Maggy long with her illustrations. We love the anecdote about the Kidney Beans and Baked Beans….! The bean people…
We are thrilled to be able to post a wonderful testimonial from student Jane Crocker who has just finished the Illustration Diploma Course with tutor Spencer Hill. We have added some of Jane’s artwork for everyone to see below. We…
Tutor Maggy Roberts received this wonderful email from her student Heidi Hauser who studied on the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course. We are thrilled that Heidi enjoyed her course and gained confidence from it. We love her work and have…
My name is Emma Allen. A few years after the birth of my daughter I found myself at a crossroads in my life and wondering what to do next. My childhood dream of becoming an Illustrator had got lost somewhere…
I wanted to submit one of my botanical paintings to the London Art College Competition 2017, as I have done before, however this time I was delayed and did not do it. I read about the Jackson´s Plant Life: Botanical…
London Art College student Ian Scott has been creating pencil studies of his families hands for one of the assignments on the Drawing and Painting Diploma Course. You can see a few of them below. Once Scott had practiced studying…
Student Adele Gregory is current working on our Drawing and Painting Diploma Course with tutor Paul Weaver. Adele has been experimenting with watercolour, layering of colours and wet in wet washes. We love the vibrancy and freshness of the painting and…
Hello everyone! Just finished my Spooky poem and right in time for Halloween! I couldn’t wish for the better timing working on it as in every shop, I could see Halloween themed decorations, which is where I found my inspiration…
We have some wonderful and spooky illustrations for todays post created by our students – perfect for Halloween! The illustrating Children’s books Diploma course is perfect for creating illustrations such as these. We defy any of our viewers to be…