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Tips for Sketching Crowds

By Suhita Shirodkar

Type
Article
Level
Intermediate
Price
Free
Published
2025
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About this lesson

Explains how to build a crowd sketch over the course of a scene rather than a single instant: align standing figures' heads along the eye-level line, avoid neatly lined-up static figures in favor of overlap and dynamic action, and vary figures from detailed foreground to simplified background silhouettes.