 He subsequently changed his focus to painting and spent time in Provincetown, Massachusetts, studying with Charles Webster Hawthorne and Henry Hensche.Draper attended the National Academy of Design in New York, and the Cape Cod School of Art in Massachusetts.Following his education, he went to Spain to study briefly with Harry Zimmerman (protege of Paul 
Sacks), and then moved to France, where he attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.