How To Draw People Who Move

Welcome to Draw Tip Tuesday!

I am away in August, but I selected a bunch of videos from the archive this month.

I often get questions about drawing people who move. That's why I am pulling this video from the archives for you this week.

When you try to add passers by in your drawing, they are already gone before you hardly even started. To draw people on the move, you need to be practice a lot. And with practicing pages, the drawings aren't necessarily great, but you are discovering ways to solve creative problems. There is no shortcut to drawing people - the only answer is: do it a lot. But I do have a few tips for you in today's video.

With today's exercise, you get to draw while hanging out by the beach. How cool is that?

Materials used:

- Stillman&Birn Beta series Sketchbook, 19cmx19cm / 7.5”x7.5”
-Sailor fountain pen with calligraphy nib, filled with Platinum Carbon Black ink
-Daniel Smith watercolors
-Pentel Aquash waterbrush

Resource video I used for reference from "Beaches Be Trippin". This is their playlist of boardwalk webcam videos:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSgqxk2f-mxBcwOGQd3WvoaMPEoZed6JL

For a deeper dive into drawing people, I have these suggestions for you:

-Check out the online course "People Drawing People" at Sketchbookskool.com
-Keep an eye on upcoming urban sketching workshops by Suhita Shirodkar: http://www.suhitasketch.com/teaching
-More inspiration from people who draw people on the beach? Check out Inma Serrano's and Marina Grechanik's Instagram feeds

PS. If you didn't already get your hands on a copy of my book "life is better when you draw it", go here: https://www.koosjekoene.com/book