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9. Drawing people and pets

Timelapse, tips and references!

This was more challenging than previous days, but I rolled with it and made the subject my own instead of sticking with the reference photo.

If you also feel moved to make a more finished image and have time to do so, go for it! I’d love to do this one a few more times, but we’ll move on to drawing groups of folks and faces soon.

It was fun starting with a watercolor base for this one, then sketching over it. If you watch the last part of the timelapse, you can see me play around with a few different faces before drawing this one.

Takeaways from drawing people and pets:

  • Draw the thing that challenges a few times you on a loose sheet of paper before going in to draw the final!

  • If the subjects are touching or person is holding the pet, sketch the overall shape first.

  • Look at it the next day, figure what’s missing, (For me, the guy’s posture and expression wasn’t hitting the sweet spot.) then keep playing!

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