SKETCHING PEOPLE: Life Drawing Basics

Fluid, fast and expressive life drawings start here with a wonderful comprehensive course based on classic principles. Here are essential techniques for drawing gesture, figures, clothing, expression, body language and to render fleeting gestures from memory and capturing expressions simply and quickly. Along the way develop a more spontaneous approach for successfully working from life as you learn skills about construction, hands and expressions, use photographs to draw an eye, nose or mouth and mould the features into expressions, interlock folds of clothing, pipe folds of clothing and practice spherical figures, cubic forms to settings and perspectives and the asymmetrical balance of light and dark called compressing the values. The world is constantly in motion - capture it. 128pp softback, illus. 21 x 27.4cm.