It may have caught your attention that throughout history, humans have consistently engaged in the creation of art. Have you ever paused to ponder why art is
Putting people in a scene can be tricky. These pointers will help you make your watercolor figures simple, but credible.
By André Sandmann in Zurich Lately, I’ve experimented a lot. The idea of making a drawing in a continuous line is stuck with me. More or less – except for certain details and the hatching – this is an example. How interesting are the lines connecting the elements. For me, this technique also has the […]
I often get emails from people who've seen my train drawings, asking for advice on how to go about sketching strangers in public. So, although I have probably said a lot of this before, in bits and bobs, I thought I'd put it all together, to maybe help give people the confidence to have a go. Firstly, I never, ever ask permission: if you do that, you're stuck drawing a 'portrait', which is a totally different thing; people are no longer natural, plus there's suddenly an expectation on you to achieve a likeness (as well as a need to make sure it's flattering!), which makes things quite stressful. My 'victim' sometimes works it out halfway through, but then they tend to hold the original position and carry on with what they were doing. There are tricks: firstly, I have found trains are perfect - when people are travelling, they have less objection than when they're 'at leisure'. It's dead time, so somehow up for grabs. I know sketchers who've been challenged for drawing strangers in a pub or restaurant: people can feel you're invading their privacy in these places. I plucked up courage to try sketching at the hairdressers once: Museums, galleries, cafes and queues seem to be other universally acceptable venues. Buses are too bumpy by the way, and people get off too soon. I always choose a table seat on the train. It gives you a better view of more people. The main reason though, is I can put my handbag on the table and my sketchbook in my lap, so it's hard for anyone to work out what I'm up to. I try not to draw people with friends: conversation makes them move constantly. People reading books are good, but newspapers are a problem: too many different head positions as they look at different articles! People sleeping, texting or at laptops are the best of all - total absorption, so they rarely see you, and they hold one position for ages. I sometimes show people, if I'm proud of the drawing. Also, if they realised I was drawing them, it's a nice courtesy. I've had some lovely conversations as a result: it's a great way of bonding with complete strangers in a weirdly random way. Another situation I like for sketching is live musicians. They are normally too involved in their performance to worry about me and I've been given quite a few free albums when I've shown them afterwards: It's funny when you show people: the reaction generally ranges from disbelief or surprise, to feeling flattered. Non-plussed is the most negative I've had so far. If you are new to it, I suggest you focus on particular details - shoes, hands, bits of faces - rather than going for the whole person. Go for venues where folks are likely to be sitting for a while. I tried the forecourt of a station once - hopeless: everyone was in a hurry and very twitchy! Try not to rub out - it makes a mess and takes up valuable time. If it goes wrong, either draw over the top, or move to a new bit of the page. Also, have 2 or 3 sketches of the same person going at once on the same page: that way you can jump between them as they move about: Oh, and a hot tip if you work in pencil, carry at least half a dozen ready sharpened in a pencil case (3Bs are my favourite), that way you never need to stop and sharpen mid-way, and miss the moment. Remember: the first sketch is the hardest, so screw up your courage and just make a start. You will get better too, honest! If you still feel too self conscious, why not get together with friends and do a sketchcrawl with friends? You can view a selection from my various sketchbooks on my website and I have created various short films about how I use my sketchbooks, which might be useful in getting you inspired. My book Sketching People, goes into a lot more depth on all the above, and much, much more. If you would be interested in attending a sketching workshop in person, please sign up to my mailing list, so you get all the information of what events I'm running and first refusal on places available.
One of my favorite pastimes on the train : draw people sleeping
Day Four of #OneWeek100People: real people. My goal for today was to come home with some drawings that looked like real people, not cardboard cutouts or cartoons, so I went to Tim Horton’s kn…
Having an airport layover -- whether five minutes or five hours -- can be quite a boring experience. But, it doesn't have to be! Michael Chesley Johnson shares a few ways to get a little creative while you wait for a flight. Basically, here's how to sketch people at the airport without seeming, well, sketchy.
At the 'Capturing Chaos: Drawing a crowd workshop in Sausalito today
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Images by Simone Ridyard of Urban Sketchers, a worldwide group of more than 60,000 people who create drawings of the places they visit
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There is beauty to be had in every aspect of our life and surroundings; this is a fact that every artist knows, enjoys, exploits and also uses to create his or her own version of art. Many people can wax poetic about the breathtaking vistas of nature and this is indeed easy to do as the beauty there is unusual and untouched. This is also true of the past where there were buildings and structures that really used a person’s ingenuity and imagination to come up with the most fantastic structures. This becomes really obvious when you look at the beautiful castles around the world, where fantasies seems to have come true.
Un temps magnifique, pas loin d'une quarantaine de sketchcrawlers, bref, vivement le 34ème Sketchcrawl
