Article · Urban Sketchers
Workshop 7: Capturing the Crowd: People in Public Spaces
By James Richards
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2016
About this lesson
Breaks down how to place a believable crowd into a street scene: sketch people first with buildings as backdrop, vary figure size and detail by distance to fake depth, and use overlapping, grouping and gesture to suggest a moving crowd.
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