A new round of figure drawing tips commences! This time, I reveal my secret technique for quick-sketching figures, and I have some stuff to say about planting people on the ground plane.
A Race to the Bottom
Hiding Hands & Seeking Elbows
One final round of figure drawing tips for 2025. This time we investigate what happens when you stick your hands in your pockets or plant them on your hips.
Helping Hands
Figure drawing tips, round five. It’s time to discuss hands, and how to cope with the impossibility of quick-sketching the little monsters.
Sole Searching
A fourth round of figure drawing tips. This time we’re talking about shoes, with a brief digression about breaking down the body into chunks of clothing.
Let’s Draw a Crowd!
Figure drawing tips, part three. This one’s about drawing groups of humans, adding people one by one according to a consistent point of view. Plus a tip about elbows!
Below the fold (as they say in the newspaper racket), a selection of sketchbook pages illustrating some of these viewpoints.
Continue readingHuman-Shaped Friends
Round two of my figure drawing tips. This time, we’re simplifying the characteristic forms of human limbs, and thinking a little bit about the magic of knees.
Some Thoughts on Drawing Humans
Commencing a new series of drawing tips! Here I’ll attempt to break down my process for quickly sketching living human people.
No Kings, October 2025
Sketches from the fall protest march in San Francisco. Normally I try to record the colors accurately as well, but this time I figured I’d change them up for the sake of anonymity.
No Kings, June 2025
We have another one of these rallies coming up tomorrow. Here are my sketches from the previous round–hard to believe this was only four months ago.
Moab Travel Journal
More travel journals! For this year’s getaway we went to Moab, Utah, to admire pretty rocks and life-sized dinosaur models.
