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4) How To Sketch PEOPLE | Urban Sketching For Beginners (Patreon)

Published:
2026-01-16 05:23:20
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2026-02-12 23:13:30
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I'll show you how to sketch people while you're urban sketching! This is a fundamentals tutorial for beginners, so I'll give an overview of the theory of proportions. Then we'll be sketching people from photos to help build confidence in the process while keeping the essential proportions in mind.

This is a longer tutorial so if you only want to choose one of the figures to sketch, I have the chapters and times listed below.

WHAT'S NEXT:

If you'd like to learn more after finishing this tutorial and practice the sketching process, please go to my 'People Sketching Fundamentals' collection where I've put my all my recommended tutorials in one place. I also have my full library of all my people tutorials and portrait tutorials that I have made over the past few years.

CHAPTERS:

Intro & Theory 00:00-06:14 / Exercise 1 Lady Standing 06:14-33:36 / Exercise 2 Man Sitting Side On 33:36-56:10 / Exercise 3 Man Sitting Front on 56:10-1:20:53 / Exercise 4 Man Standing 1:20:53-1:42:20 / Summary & What To Do Next 1:44:20-1:45:02

SUPPORT FILES: Please download the high resolution references below as well as the templates so you can easily sketch along with this tutorial.

SHARE: Post your sketches in the community group chat so we can see your work 🙌🏼 ('Community' menu > ‘Gallery: Share Your Sketches’).

MATERIALS: Uni-Ball Eye (aka Vision) Micro 0.5mm / Princeton Aqua Elite Round 10 / Uniball Signo White Pen /  Baohong Watercolor Paper 300gsm 100% Cotton 10.2”x7” / Winsor & Newton Cotman Watercolor 16 Pan Set Black & White in this set replaced by Purple Lake & Yellow Ochre. Baohong paper is sometimes renamed ‘Meeden’. (Amazon Affiliate links above earn me a tiny commission at no extra cost to you!)

Colors Used: Permanent Rose/Ultramarine/Cerulean Blue Hue/Turquoise/Viridian Hue/Sap Green/Burnt Sienna/Burnt Umber/Paynes Gray/Purple Lake & Yellow Ochre

👇PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE REFERENCES AND TEMPLATE FILES BELOW👇

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Comments

Bekki

This is awesome. I was expecting to see a tutorial on the #5 image but this is soooooo much better! Thank you so much for putting all this into one video. I'm gonna have fun this weekend! ☺️

Sonnenschein

Thats sooo nice to do, lucky now, thank you so much 🎨🥰

Maria Clara Echeverri

Hi Scottie! How do you sketch people "in situ" I mean, outside, where people is moving and walking. I think it is difficult to use the dot technique when you only have a minimun time to draw people in movement. Do you have any tutorial drawing people in movement? Thanks

Echo Creative Journey

This tutorial was wonderful and it has helped me to overcome my fear of drawing people. Thank you!

Ros B

Thank you, a great way to spend a morning

Sarah Gage-Hunt

Thank you for all your tutorials. The thing I have learned the most is that in this type of urban sketching it is OK if it doesn't look just like the subject. Get the proportions right and it looks like a person, not necessarily the one you were sketching, but that's OK!

Brianna

your tutorials are so relaxing and easy to follow. thank you so much! i am making a booklet of all the templates too. they are so helpful

Ben Reeve-Lewis

Watching you do these in real time made me realise that the give away in a sketch is not getting the angle of an arm wrong or the shape of the head but the proportions. Feet being too small or body too long is the thing that really jars your eye. If your proportions are right the picture looks right regardless of where you thought you’d got in wrong while you were doing it. Breakthrough for me.

Ben Reeve-Lewis

I know this sounds easily corrected but when I start with the head the figure always ends up with the head too small, even when I measure it meticulously with a ruler. I can’t find a way beyond this annoying detail. Is there something I’m missing?