How to Draw People By Reagan Seye To start, I love drawing, and when I show my art to people they ask how I did it. I decided to make this drawing and show the process so anyone that wants to read this and learn some techniques I learned to improve my art. 1. When I draw people, I start with a line called the line of action which is the line next to the human in the first picture. (I drew two different lines but one of them I actually used to draw a person.) I use a circle to draw the head and many other rounded shapes to draw the rest of the body. I use round rectangles and triangles to draw the torso and arms. I try to do this very quickly since this is the rough drawing. I try not to slowly make the shapes and make them perfectly shaped, because trying to immediately make a drawing perfect when it’s just being started will only mess it up. Understanding anatomy only gets easier the more you practice if you want to get better at drawing people. I have improved since when I first started drawing people, but I still have a lot to learn. Even with drawing a circle for the head, making a bunch of small separated, dashed lines to make a perfect circle isn’t the purpose. Perfecting the drawing comes at the end. 2. After drawing the rough drawing I lightly erase so it’s only slightly less visible. I lightly draw how I want the face, clothes, and whatever else I would like to be added to look. I also use shapes to draw facial features. When it comes to drawing people, you want to make it look like there’s movement whether you make it look like they are jumping, or make it look like their skirt is blowing in the wind. Clothes really help it look like there is movement because clothes can flow and move in all different directions. Making it look like there is movement can also be posing people like they are walking or making gestures at objects. Dramatize how a person looks so they look lively, even if they are just walking around. I still have a hard time with making people look lively and flowy.
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