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Domestic photo-set: The Studio (Tilli & artists)

Added 2025-04-25 09:00:03 +0000 UTC

We realised while making our domestic photoset series that most of us prioritised having a studio over other rooms like a sitting room or permanent bedroom. While not every home will have one, we like to think of a studio as more of an idea than a single type of space - any room can (and should) be repurposed as a studio. In this photo-set we wanted to create a playful, contrived studio set up, with a gaggle of artists gathered in an implausibly tight composition around Tilli as they posed. We had just held a real life class in the same room and the artists who were drawing there all agreed to pose for the photoset - as so many artists are worried what the model might thing of their drawings of them we thought it'd be a chuckle to include Tilli's poses as they discover a discarded sketchbook full of drawings. Feel to borrow the artist poses and use them in any way you'd like!

Recommended listening: Tilli's life drawing playlist (parental advisory)

About the model & photos

Our main model for this set is Tilli (they/them)
Our posing artists are Alejandro, Martha, Bo, JM and Ellie
You can find more reference photos & live recordings of our models by searching their names in our archive

About the photographer

The photos in this set were shot by Justyna Neryng at our domestic photoshoot, you can see previews of the reference photos being released this Spring in our teaser HERE.

Guidelines for using the photographs

Please do:

Download these pictures to your own computers and devices, downloading the Zip files for all images, or saving individual photos.
Use the pictures to draw, paint, print and sculpt from, being as realistic or creative as you like
Share the artwork you’ve made with us and the world - in books, in exhibitions, on social media, or on your fridge
Tag us in work you make (@drawbrighton / #drawbrighton) – you don’t have to, but we love to see what you’ve made!
Edit the photo files as reference for your own drawings - you can change the contrasts, colours and backgrounds to provide more tailored reference for yourself.

Please don't:

Share these pictures with anybody else – they are between you and us
Share the photos themselves online – thanks for respecting our models’ privacy
Edit the photo files themselves for artwork – we want to see original work you’ve made

Thanks!