People are the thing that stops most sketchers cold. They move, and everybody already knows what a person is supposed to look like, so the errors show. Curé’s fix is to start with proportion and then get you drawing fast — how to catch a pose in a few seconds before it changes, how much face you actually need for an expression to read, what to do with hands and feet, how to handle a small group and then a crowd. The geology degree shows in how methodically she breaks it down. There’s a checklist of challenges at the back: draw feet, draw people on their phones, draw five heads of hair in colors nobody has. (Yes, I have the whole series.)
The Urban Sketching Handbook: Drawing Expressive People