Urban sketching is all about capturing the life of the city, street or scene that you’re in! But adding people to your sketch can be scary, and that might even stop you sketching and drawing where you want, or hitting your art goals.

Well, if that sounds like you then this is the class for you!!

The people in our streets bring life and character, and drawing people really doesn’t have to be hard. Instead, with a couple of simple techniques we can confidently and quickly add people, figures and crowds into our urban sketches and drawings.

I’ll show you a couple of easy techniques to add people to your scenes, that will give you the tools and confidence to start sketching busy streets, markets and crowds straight away.

This class will specifically cover:

• Three different techniques to add simple figures into your crowd
• Relaxed ways to add colours to your figures (and also reasons you might not want to!)
• Do you need to draw the people first, or the scene first?

Then, of course, we’ll put this into practice with two example sketches from references in the class project files!

These two fully worked examples I'll show you in real time, fully narrated, step-by-step.

I’d suggest this class to anyone interested in developing flexible and enjoyable ways of sketching people and figures.

For beginners, it’s an easy and relaxed way to start sketching crowded streets, filled with figures straight away.

For advanced sketchers, you can explore and adapt the different techniques to your own style and see what works for you.

This class builds on my previous urban sketching classes, which cover the basics of human proportions and sketching individual people, as well as sketching houses and urban scenes.