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Sketching People on Location: How to Add Figures to Your Urban Sketches

By Dalton Scolman

Type
Article
Level
Beginner
Price
Free
Published
2026
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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.