Illustration Exhibitions and Life Drawing

An illustrator's feed online is one thing; the actual drawing in front of you is another, and the difference is what these listings close. Exhibitions, private views, degree shows, open studios and life drawing sessions for illustration are gathered here, each named for what it actually is. Artistivo lists these as members post them, in the discipline's own vocabulary, so a reader can search by the words illustrators and their audiences actually use rather than a generic label.

An illustrator's calendar runs on a different axis than a painter's or a sculptor's, because illustration work is made for a page, a screen or a print run rather than a wall, so the occasions that gather people in a room are chosen on purpose: a graduating cohort mounting a degree show, a studio opening its doors for work still in progress, or a gallery giving over a wall to originals that otherwise exist only as reproductions, and each occasion matters here in a way a page never can.

You can generally count on meeting the illustrator in person only at the private view; once that opening crowd disperses, the exhibition's quieter later run becomes the better stretch for looking closely at linework and colour. A life drawing session asks something different: you turn up to draw, not to look, and whether it runs free or ticketed is set by whoever is hosting it. A degree show puts graduates near their own work, and an open studio shows work mid-process, still unfinished.

Posting an illustration occasion here needs only a registered account, not the artist role, and whoever posts it is the one who keeps it current afterward. Artistivo narrows this by discipline and by style for a reader who already knows what they want, and from here it is a short step to the illustrators themselves, the illustration classes on the platform, or back to the discipline hub for the wider picture of the craft.