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1. Introduction: Hello, and welcome to this
class on sketching people. This is going to be a short
class divided in three days. On each day, I'll be
drawing along with you from different references that I gather to help you
out in this class. All you need for this
class is a sketchbook. One that you own already, or if you don't
just find something on any format that you might be the most
comfortable with. I'll be using this
small sketchbook, but you can use whatever
you want and in any format. Along with your sketchbook, we're going to be using a pen, a pencil, and an eraser. These are going to be our tools and it doesn't really
matter their brands, the color, anything, just use something that is
comfortable for you and that you
already have at home. Besides these videos, I'll
also give you an assignment so you can put into practice what you're learning right away. Are you ready to
start sketching and getting more comfortable
with your sketchbook, then jump right into it and I will see you
in the next class.
2. People Resources & Your Assignment!: Right. Hello and
welcome to this class. Now before we start drawing, I just want to talk to
you about the places and how you can start doing
the sketching habits, drawing people and where can
you find the people to draw. Now, of course, you can just use your imagination or use
yourself as a model. You can take pictures of yourself with different
outfits that you like, use those pictures
and draw them. You can also look
up on the Internet. You can search for random
situations that people are or for specific outfits. For example, you can
go online and search for winter outfits
or spring outfits. On the other hand, you can look for something like
person reading a book, person walking
outside or running, doing some kind of sport, drinking something, specific actions that
you might want to draw. Some of these places that
I like to search for some references are
splash and pexels. These are my favorite
use and they are free to so you can just search wherever you want and download those images if
you want to use them. Or you can just look at your screen and sketch
it very quickly, look for another photo, and so on and so on. For Pinterest,
another cool thing about Pinterest is that
as you might know, you can create some
boards in there, you can basically make
small collections of different photos and references that you might want to use, and whenever you want to
sketch or draw something, you can just go into
those collections you created your boards and you already have some references ready to use instead of having
to search for them. Now, of course, one of the greatest practices
you can do when drawing people is actually going outside and drawing the
people you see outside. You can just go to
a coffee place, for example, sit down. Ask for some coffee
or any other drink, open up your sketchbook, get your pen ready, and just start sketching
people that you see. You can also do this at
the garden. What else? On the bus, on the subway or any other
transport that you might write. There are many places
that you can do this and it is a great practice. But the idea here is for you to not only be comfortable
in drawing people, but also be comfortable
in using your sketchbook. Remember that we
just sketching here, we are not going to make a perfect drawing, a
finalized drawing. This is just doodles. These are quick drawings from the images
that we're seeing. We're trying to capture the main parts of the
drawing, the pose, the outfit, the action
that is being taken, and putting that into paper. These are not going to
be perfect drawings. These are going to be
sketches for you to practice and to learn to be more relaxed into using
your sketchbook. So as for resources, I have a reference
board for each day of sketching and each day is going to have a different theme. There are three
different heffercebards for you to download,
don't forget to do that. But of course, if you want, you can look up for your own
references in the websites that I mentioned and use
those for your sketches. It's totally up to you and you can draw
whatever you want. For your assignments, the
idea is for you to fill out a page or a spread of your sketchbook depending
on how big it is. For example, if your
sketchbook is a four page, you can just fill one page
instead of a whole spread, but fill up at least one page
of your sketchbook per day. Of course, this is just the
minimum that you can do, but you can draw as many
pauses as you want. If you want to fill up more
than one page, then go ahead. If you want to
fill out a spread, you can do that as well. It's totally up to
you to the time you have and the energy
you have as well. This is it for now. Follow me to the next video where we're
going to start our sketching.
3. Day 1 - Make It Fashion - Outfits & Garbs: Hello, and welcome back. Are you ready to
draw because that's exactly what we'll
be doing right now. I got here my materials,
my pen, pencil, and eraser, as well
as my sketchbook. I also got for day one, my first reference board that
I have here on my computer. I'll leave it perhaps
somewhere here on the screen so you can look at
it while we draw. The first day day
one of sketching people is all about outfits. Let's make it fashion
and draw some outfits. I'll just open my sketchbook. Since my sketchbook
is rather small, the idea here is to fill
out these two pages. You can sketch your people as big or as small as you want. But just remember that if
you're drawing it too small, it starts to get a bit
more difficult to add details and sometimes
you get a bit confused with the proportions because everything
is really small. But it's totally up to you. I tend to draw smallish so we'll see how
it goes and we'll start I would recommend
you to just go in with a pen because I feel
that I know it feels scary, but it makes it
easier, believe me, because you stop thinking
too hard about the poses, about the outfits, and so on, and just jump in and start
drawing what you see. But we can still for
the start for you to start and so it's a bit less overwhelming, we'll
start with the pencil. What we'll do here
is take a look at reference image and we'll just focus on shapes when
using a pencil. So I'm going to start with that first reference right there, the girl with the head. As you can see, I'm going very loose with
my pencil and I'm just drawing some shapes
here, very, very simple. No just the arms here. Going here, another arm, going here and the ends encounter each other
here at the middle. There we go. So this is
it, just a simple shape. And now I'm going to
pick my pen and I'm going to start
drawing the outfit. So far, I just had the
base shapes for the body, and now I want to draw
the actual outfit. Now, I'm not really focusing a lot on
facial features here. I just want to draw
the outfit itself, and this is just a sketch. I just want to capture
what I need to capture very quickly
using very few lines. Just look at your image. This doesn't need to
be perfect right. Even the hands, I'm
not really focusing on them being very
atomically perfect. I just want to have
here my outfit drawn. There we go. All
we're missing now is our head and we can add some
stripes here to the shirt. I don't have many colors here and I'm just going to
feel here our head. There we go, our first drawing. Now, what I will do afterwards
is erase all these lines, the pencil lines, but since I'll just let
it dry for a bit, so I don't mess my sketch. All right. Next
one, we can go for the girl with a skateboard. Now we can't really
see the girl's face, but since we are
focusing here on the outfit itself, it's fine. We got here a bit
more of a pause. She got here a
skateboard on her hand. Notice how I'm going very
loosely here. Here we go. Now, I just missing here. This other that is going for
the pocket. There we go. This is my sketch. Now again, pick up the pen
and let's draw the outfit. She got this open shirt
that is very, very loose. See the other side of it, W here, the other sleeve. Everything is very loose. Then we got this scrub top. We got here our hands. And skateboard. I'm not adding details
to the skateboard here, not interested in that. But here, the other hand, that's in the pocket
and then we got this very loose pens and same
thing on the other side. Then we got these
very big snickers and I'm forgetting here
to rest over shirt. We can even add a
bit of color to the shirt here and
there we go there. Very simple. I can go in now and erase the first pencil ones
I did at the beginning. Now let's step this up a bit. Let's loose the pencil
and just use our pen. What can we draw next? I like that child with a puffy jacket and
hood. Let's try that. It's very simple. So let's draw her here. We got the head circle. Now let's go and draw
the hood. There we go. And we got here a little
bit of a binning right and then we got a bit of a scarf appearing in
there. There we go. Now we got a puff jacket
that looks very, very warm. First arm here, always looking
at my reference and see, and of course, this won't
be perfect, all right. But I get the general idea of it and that's what we're
trying to capture. Try here, the hand and we
got here another hand right. Now I feel I don't really have lots of space for the
legs here, but let's try. We got one leg going
here in this direction, and then the other
going this way. Here we go and we
got here our shoes. The proportions are
a bit weird here, maybe here I can make
the checket a bit better because I I'm out of space
here, but that's okay. There we go. Another one. I want to exaggerate here
the puffy hood a bit more. There we go. Let's
go for another one. That's how we go after another. Let's draw the other kids
also with a puffy suit. We got here a bit of
a pini situation. Try to do this with as
few strokes as possible. Focus on the movement. Of the clothes in this case, we can barely see the other shoe because
there's some snow right and he's holding
here this shovel. So let's draw this well very
quickly and there we go. Let's do another. I really
like this lady here. I'm going to draw another
page because I really like this lady with
another puffy jacket, very big winter jacket. Go and now we got her face
can barely see her face, and then we got here
all the hair appearing. I really like that. Then we got her legs that end up being very contrasting with the rest of the drawing wearing
some snickers. There we go. Next one. Let's draw the kid with a red hat because I think
she looks very cute. Going to try to make it smallish because I'm running
out of space here. There we go. Now maybe
just two more to fill out this white space here
around this area. Let's see, let's see. I'm feeling like
drawing hats today. Let's draw that guy
with the black hat. Can't really see the
rest of his legs, so we don't know what he's
wearing and another one, perhaps the lady with
other heat from the back, just trying to follow the general direction
of the clothes here. Right now we got here the
skirts going this way, mostly. There we go. Our
first challenge here, just drawing some
outfits, having some fun. We start with a pencil
and then we stop worrying about the pencils and the lines and just go in and
draw whatever we see. This is it for now.
Don't forget to download the reference
board, take your time. You can draw other images than
the one that I drew here. And just have some fun and
don't worry about perfection. This is okay spread. These are just sketches, do those things that you
do very, very quickly. Take your time and I will
see you in the next video.
4. Day 2 - Quiet Contemplation - Small Routines: Hello, and welcome back. This is day two of
sketching people. Today we have quiet
contemplation and drawing small routine. I have here once again
my reference board. This is going to be a
bit more complex because we have different poses here. So sometimes it can
difficult things a bit more, but it's always good
for us to leave our comfort zone and to
draw different things, so we start getting used to it. Once again, this
is just sketching, so it's perfectly fine if it's
not good. That's the idea. It's for you to just
explore and try new things. Even if your sketches are not as good as you want them
to be, that's fine. You'll get better
with time, just keep sketching. All right. This is my day one, and I'm going to
open a new spread, and let's start with
the pencil again. If you want, we can make a few more drawings,
starting with pencil. So let me see here. What do I want to
start with? All right. I was going to start with
something a bit more complex, but let's start with the
girl in the yellow raincoat. It's a fairly simple pose and there's not a lot
of details there. Let's start with that
to warm up a bit. I'm just going and
finding here some shapes. Since we don't really
see a lot of her body, I'm just following the shapes of the clothing. There we go. I will leave it
like this for now. Now let's pick up the pen
and add some more details. Here some hair, and then
we got our hood appearing. Now we got here a
purse that we go. Let's draw here this see here a bit of a
hand right and here this arm is bent a bit and
now we got here our raincoat, the rest of it, and
now we got the legs. It's very cute yellow boots and same thing on
the other side, although the foot is
in another position. There we go. Very simple. This is probably the
simplest pose we have here. This one with a phone
actually is also quite fun, so maybe we can try that. I'll try to. I'm going to zoom in this a bit
so I can see better. But yes, we got here, let's go with a pencil again and I forgot, find our shapes. Just she's using her phone, the hands are here, and then we got here the arms. Can maybe go a bit more to the side and we got here a bag. This is what we got so far. All right, and then got the
bag and then we got here, one leg going here and the
other going straight down. And then this one
goes in front right. See how sketchy I'm being
here with my lines. There's absolutely
no perfection here. We're just looking
for the movement. This is it there. Now let's pick up the pen
again and draw our girl here. She has a mask. I want
to draw it and she also got here the glasses, and then we got
here not stripes, the handles of the bag, and we got a t shirt, a very baggy t shirt we even see here bends on the t shirt right, the arms and the hands
holding her phone. See how my hands are
very, very simple drawn. I don't really have a
whole lot of detail there. I'm just going for
the main aspects. There we go, and then we have a bit of the shirt
showing here below, and now the pants, they are very, very loose. There's pockets
there. All right. Then we got here the shoes same thing on the
other side, there we go. Simple and easy. Let's see what else to draw. I really like this pose here, the lady in the forest. I really like it. So, let's
keep our pencil here. Another one with a pencil. We got here the head. This is a bit like just drawing. If you've seen my gesto
drawing classes before, you are already
familiar with this, but this is basically it. I got here the jacket, the arm. Notice how I'm going messier, messier as I go with
these drawings, just capturing the
movement in general. This is a very messy sketch, but then I will go in with my here and I will
clean things up a bit. Then we go. We got
here, check it, here another bit of check it
and we got here the sleeves. I don't really
have the space for the rest of this arm,
but that's fine. Now here, we have the
sleeves quite large. I would like to be messy with my drawings here,
with my sketches. Co, then the leg right here and we share the
other foot as well. Let's erase some of the lines
that we have here already. One page is filled. Are we ready to just
use our pen now and not have the pencil
helping us? Let's see. I'm going to draw
this young person. I'm not sure if it's a man or a woman and it doesn't
really matter, but they are sitting here
in a wall, Let's draw that. All right, starting
here with head and then we got this shape
here, all right. Get here big paring, and then we got the legs. Then we go messy messy messy, now the other leg and
we got here a bit of the other.G here
some areas a bit wrong. But that's right. We
got what we needed. Let's see next text. This girl with a hat. I really like it has some
sunglasses and her hand. One of her hands is in her face. I'm going to draw
the hand right away, and then we got here jacket and you saw arm going this way, here a bit of the backpack. Some folds of the
shirt here, folds. That's the word I
was looking for. Now we got here her backpack. All right. Now we got her legs. Pattern on her flannel
and this is it. See, they're all very messy, but that's what I
like about them. I think I'm going to
stop here because I don't really like the spaces. I feel like I don't
have enough space here, but I like how messy they all are because this is
just me looking at something and trying
to draw what I see as fast as possible with
not a lot of detail. And I really like making
these very messy sketches because I feel you can still tell what's happening
them in there. It's very natural. You can tell that
it's not something that I've taken a
long time to do and it makes the goal here is not for you to
draw a good drawing, it's for you to get comfortable in putting something on paper. In both of these so far, there's not really any
perfect drawing here. Lots of them actually have
some mistakes, obviously. And I could always just
pick one of these and refine them and fix the mistakes that I
might have on them. But this is the goal is just to be comfortable with
making those mistakes and being able to put
something very quickly on paper and you feel there's some awkward blank spaces there, you can also
decorate your pages. I like to go in and draw
some stars here and there, just fill in these
awkward spaces. Again, I don't draw this super
detailed and super good. They just sketch. Stars, sketchy stars, some
doodles here and there, a fun way to practice
other things in your sketchbook as
well some lettering, for example, adding
some doodles to it. Your sketchbook is
a place for you to have fun, have fun with it. This is it for now.
Take your time. Don't forget to complete
your assignment for day two, fill out a page or spread of your sketchbook and I will
see you in the next video.
5. Day 3 - Bring Some Energy In - People Moving: Hello, and welcome back. This is the tree of
sketching people. Today, I feel it's a harder day because we're going to draw
people in movement. I do understand that can be a bit more difficult and a
bit more overwhelming. Drawing people in movement
is always a bit hard. I think sometimes it can be
hard just drawing people that are just standing
and doing small tasks. But drawing people in
movement is a whole level. Usually when we get to the
final stage of something, it's customary to
give it all right. But for this one, I think we should
do the opposite. The things even easier and just relax and win down
from this whole activity. For this time, we
can do fewer poses. I would say perhaps three
or four we can use to help us out the pencil for the
first few poses the last one, we do it with pen only. What do you think? I think
that's a good compromise, and this might help us relax
a bit more and make us feel a bit more
confident and less scared of filling
out the s pages. Let's start. I'll keep my
reference part somewhere here, but I'm thinking
of starting with this girl with a pink jacket. It's a fairly simple pose, so it's just a girl walking. She's very clearly
posing for that. I think we can start with it, so start with the
heads, shapes only. We can be very loose with this. We have here a back. Now as for the legs,
something like this. Our shoes there and there we go. Very, very simple. I'm not sure how I'll fit
here another pose really, but we'll figure that out later. Right now, I'm going to pick my pen and add a
few more details. As you can see, I'm being very loose with this quick strokes. I feel like making us do
these very quick lines. We don't really give
ourselves time to be scared about how the
sketches will look like. I also makes our
drawings more dynamic, there we go. This is it. Now, next one, can
we fit something? What could we fit there? I fear that the space
is a bit too small. We can try this guy
on his bike, perhaps. I think if we start this way, focusing on shapes first. I'm not really very
good at drawing bikes. So the goal here isn't to be super good
at riding a bicycle, so I think we are
okay with that. Now we have this one
here and this one here, I'm just getting here
the bike, loosely. Yeah, I think we can do
something like this. Obviously, very
messy, but got it. Now we're going to add the rest of the
details just like we did before with all
other sketches. This should be lower too late. There we go. This thing should be somewhere
here and not here. But this is what happens in
sketches and that's fine. It's part especially when you're drawing things that
you're not really used to get here the wheel
and now we got here the other leg's going
something like this. There we go. We also got this
arm pecking out from here. The hand is holding
the hand wel there. I got here, something like this. Then we go down and we have
here. The other wheel. I want to show you how
to draw people and here we are drawing
bicycles instead. But there we go. This is it. One more with a pencil. Let's see. Let's see. Let's try this guy jumping here. I like that one.
We got the head. I like to start with the head, but it's one of those things that it depends from
person to person. Yeah. I got a backpack
appearing here, right? I just noticed that
I got a whole lot of backpacks here, there we go. This should be a bit then mess. Still, let's redo that. Okay. Like this better. See very messy lines
here and let's do this. I'm exaggerating here
this shirt a little bit. Our backpack that we see
here appearing, there we go. Now we got the shorts, one leg, and let's go for the other and the shorts going
somewhere like this. All right. One more done. Now, we are missing one. Let me just erase some
of the lines here. They're safe to erase
already, let's do something. This guy with the tennis, can't remember how he said it, but playing tennis.
Starting with the head. He has this very awkward pose that I think is
really, really fun. Was saying tennis, but
this is not tennis. I think this is paddle
or something like that. I think the hardest
part of this pose is done and we got
here this shirt. There we go, and now the legs. Oops, I ran out of paper
here, but that's fine. I think I made this shirt area a bit too long, but that's okay. We learn, that's way too long. It should have been
a bit more squished. But that's fine because it's a sketch and I did learn
something with it. I could just repeat
the pose again and see if I can do it better if I learn
something with it. But I'm going to
leave it this way for now because I want you guys to see that some mistakes and failure here and
there is perfectly fine. This is a space for it. As we talked about so
many times before, let's say this is movement. I can't. And now we can just decorate the page
once again a little bit. I really like
decorating my page. As you can see, I do this, very quickly, just
short strokes. But this is three
days of sketching and we draw people in
different situations. I hope you enjoyed
it and once again, don't forget to download the reference board
so you can use it. You can use other
references if you want. Just take your time. If
you need to take longer for this day, feel
free to do so. I know it can be hard. I just have fun and
don't forget to do your assignment and to post it and I will see you
in the next video.
6. Conclusion - Before You Go!: Hello, artist and welcome back. You just finished this class, three full days of
sketching people in different situations
and hopefully you'll feel more comfortable with
drawing people as well as drawing in your
sketchbook without being afraid of making a mess. As you can see, it's fine. It's your sketchbook
and the goal of it is for you to experiment and
practice your drawings. It doesn't need to be perfect. You just need to have some
fun in your practices. Congratulations on
finishing this class. Yourself a pad in the back
and don't forget to post your assignment so I can see it and give you any
feedback you might want. I always love seeing all your projects and the
drawings you come up with. It's always really,
really fun to see. If you can spare the time, do consider leaving a
review for this class, so other people like you
can watch it as well, and so I can keep on making
these classes for you. Once again, thank you so much for watching. I hope
you enjoyed it. Don't forget to check
out my other classes and I will see you next time. Don't forget, keep
on drawing. Bye.
Patricia Caldeira, Illustrator | Digital Artist | Designer
