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Urban Sketching Tips for Drawing People
By Teoh Yi Chie
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2023
About this lesson
A ten-year urban sketcher explains how to observe people without drawing attention, choose subjects likely to stay put, simplify figures into one-minute gesture marks, and sequence a moving figure by sketching head, then hands and feet, before connecting them.
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