London Art College

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 is completely up to you! It doesn’t even have to be an object or scene. Continue Reading

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 this week. A big shout out to all of our new students and members to Continue Reading

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 Children’s Book Diploma Course

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 some of her beautiful work. Monika explains below her reasons for nominating Ana which you Continue Reading

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 drawing or perhaps choose to make more of a cartoon or illustration style piece. It Continue Reading

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 mention to Mila who has illustrated her own music video. She created the video and Continue Reading

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 beginning of what the final scene may look like.  I started out looking at library books Continue Reading

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 describe a moody twilight scen where bears row lazily down stream through a dreamy landscape. Continue Reading

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 examples of actual illustrated songs to give inspiration. However our students will have to start Continue Reading

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 varied, each and every one completely different from the next. A special shoutout to Barbara Continue Reading

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 Diploma

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 Course

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 choice is yours. You inspiration is water, fish, starfish, jellyfish, turtles… let your imagination run Continue Reading

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 some of the beautiful, very clever designs and some pretty and colourful ones too. If Continue Reading

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 me! The study of the various forms of household products to create the universe of Continue Reading

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 on the work that I’ve done during the course and all the assignments and portfolio Continue Reading

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 out by collecting pictures from a Sunday newspaper food supplement and from Google images. It Continue Reading

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 added some ideas by artists below to give you some inspiration. You don’t have to Continue Reading