Description

Learn how to draw people in motion in “Dynamic Stories with People Movement and Time,” a workshop from Suhita Shirodkhar that explores gesture drawing, basic proportions and perspective. We will sketch people’s movements and actions to capture dynamic stories that unfold over the passage of time.

Distance to sketching location:
0.2 mile
Average walking time:
4 minutes

Learning Goals

In this workshop, participants will: 

• Learn how to draw people in motion, including gesture drawing, basic proportions and capturing bodies in motion.
• Explore drawing a crowd, including understanding a crowd in relation to perspective, relationships between people and the sketcher’s point-of-view
• Learn how to capture time in sketches, including overlapped figures, incomplete figures and one person in multiple poses to describe a sequence of actions. (This is a “stretch goal” that participants can grapple with if they want to take on an extra challenge.)

Supply List

• Your regular sketchbook
• Variable line tool – I like to use a brush pen, but you can also use a very soft (6B or 8B) pencil or any mark-making tool that makes thick and thin marks.
• Any pen with waterproof ink
• 3-4 colored pencils, any brand
• Any coloring medium –  wet and dry media all work (I will use watercolor)
• For the final exercise I will hand out a larger sheet of paper for those that would like to explore a bigger sketch.