Are Figures a Weak Spot in Your Urban Sketching?
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Figures can present a challenge when drawing streetscapes. Intuitively we know exactly when a figure looks unlikely or even impossible. This is not the attention we want anywhere on our drawing. This video demos a simple technique for drawing credible and even interesting figures easily in our streetscape. The most practical tip is the very last one, so don't miss it!
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A simple lesson for me - keep the heads at the same height, vary the line the feet are at. Thanks for that!
Happy to help!😀
I avoid figures at all cost at this point, but I know I’ll eventually have to take the plunge. They do add so much to the drawing. Thank you again!
Start with drawing just figures on scrap paper. Each one is less than a minute so you can improve quickly. 😀
At the end you mentioned not drawing in clothing details until you saw what needed to be fixed or adjusted in the figure. I find it also helps to hatch figures in darker clothing where they aid in balancing my composition or aid in drawing the observer’s eye where I want it to go. Thanks for this helpful video!
Another good point. Thanks for sharing 😀
Thank you for this video as i always struggle drawing figures in streetscapes 🖤
Hope it’s helpful then 😀
Thank you I really needed this. I do a lot of figure drawing but crowd shots always stumped me. I'm very used to doing gestures but this helped me figure out what type of short hand I need to use.
Very helpful, Stephen. Thank you. Given how much figures add, is it sometimes worth inserting them even where they don't appear in the reference? I suppose one challenge with doing this would be that you wouldn't have the accuracy of scale automatically present when they're already in the photo.
Hopefully you could line it up using the architectural details on the same plane. 😀
As with clouds, not a common subject or in the "wheelhouse" of your primary interests, but yet a subject on which you have valuable observations to get across to the fledgling artist.
Thanks Stevie. Certainly a useful skill to develop 😀