Article · Nicholson's Peerless Watercolors
Sketching People on Location: How to Add Figures to Your Urban Sketches
By Dalton Scolman
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2026
About this lesson
Teaches a simple three-mark method for sketching figures quickly (head, body mass, legs), using eye-level alignment to place people correctly in a scene, painting clothing color before skin tone, and starting with stationary cafe subjects before attempting moving figures.
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