Catholic Drawing

Draw the saints.
Every day, in a timer.

364 saints across four eras, Old Testament, Early Church, Medieval & Renaissance, Modern & Contemporary, paired with curated sacred art, the daily feast, and a clean drawing timer. Study iconography by practicing it, not just reading about it.

Saint of the Day

St. Bernardine of Siena

Patronage: Advertising / Public relations

Why practice from sacred art?

The Catholic tradition has been the largest patron of figurative art in human history. From Byzantine egg-tempera icons to Caravaggio's tenebrism to Zurbarán's monastic portraits, sacred art preserves two thousand years of solved problems in anatomy, drapery, composition, and gesture. If you want to get good at drawing the human figure, you already have a curriculum, it's in the altarpieces.

drawingStud.io turns that curriculum into a practice tool. Pick a saint, pick a timer, and draw. Do it daily. The images in our library are curated from public domain and open-licensed sources, real paintings, real sculpture, real iconography, not AI synthesis.

What you get
  • 364 saints, calendar-indexed
  • Curated image gallery per saint
  • Timed practice (30s to unlimited)
  • Era + patronage filters
  • Works on iPad, tablet, desktop

A suggested practice rhythm

Not prescriptive, but this is the shape that works for most people who are actually getting better.

  1. Warm-up (5–10 min): One saint, 30-second gesture poses. Don't correct. Just move.
  2. Study (15–25 min): Same saint or a related one, 2–5 minute timed studies. Focus on one thing: drapery, hands, halo composition.
  3. Finish (5–15 min): A single longer study, 10 minutes or unlimited, on the image that taught you the most.
  4. Tomorrow: Open today's saint. Repeat.

Featured Saints

Start a drawing session with any of these. Six are shown, browse all 364 in the directory.

From the Blog

Tutorials, iconography primers, and notes on sacred art practice.

Draw today's saint

Open the studio on today's feast day. One saint, one timer, twenty minutes. That's the whole practice.

Go to Today's Saint