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Everything I Know About Painting Figures

By Hema Gupta

Type
Article
Level
Beginner
Price
Free
Published
2026
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About this lesson

Contributor Hema Gupta explains practical rules for adding figures to watercolor landscapes: basic body proportion, starting from a gestural stick figure, scaling figures relative to the scene, and integrating them wet-into-wet rather than leaving blank silhouettes.