5-Minute Sketching -- People: Super-quick Techniques for Amazing Drawings

by Pete Scully

Sketching has become an extremely popular pastime. For example, on YouTube, "Tips to Draw Better in 6 Minutes" has 1.7 million views, and "How to Draw Better in 2 Minutes", has 2 million views. Every day, the website @Sketch_Dailies tweets an "inspiration" to 45,000 followers who can upload their work for juried selection. Why the rage? Simply put, drawing is a fun, meaningful and inexpensive way to spend precious time. It's a renaissance of paper and pencil, an escape from digital overload. 5-Minute Sketching -- People can help artists of all abilities to nurture their creativity and to develop skills and speed. Each spread features six expert tips and ideas. Examples of amazing 5-minute sketches inspire readers who are short on time or short on ideas, showing how easy it is to make drawing a part of everyday life. There are tips on how to focus on the key elements of a scene, how to capture faces and features quickly, how a variety of techniques can help to create mood and movement. Here is some of what the book's four sections Sketching has gone global. The Urban Sketchers community has 62 chapters around the world plus 42,000 members on Facebook and 8,200 Twitter followers. The actual number is surely higher. 5-Minute Sketching -- People is an ideal introduction to a rewarding pastime and a source of inspiration for new, experienced and lapsed sketchers alike.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Drawing, Reference, Visual Art

128 pages, Paperback

Published October 4, 2016

Reviews

[Dee Renee Chesnut]

Yes, I needed two years to work my way through the many suggestions of where to sketch people, what materials to try, and so many other suggestions to keep learning.

[Cindy]

A handy introduction to sketching people quickly using different techniques and media. Scully gives quick tips for sizing up a face, a body, gestures, crowds. I particularly liked (and used) his suggestion to trace or draw over people in magazines to get used to drawing proportionate bodies, sometime in motion. That being said, it takes an awful lot of practice to draw quickly and to capture a likeness or the essence of your subject. #artgoals

[Melanie Faith]

I enjoyed my time with this book. I'll keep this volume handy for tips and ideas as I draw. Great, full-color illustrations as well.

[Kandise]

I think this was helpful but perhaps I should wait until I've actually tried to sketch a person to say for sure ;)

[August Schau]

Plenty of suggestions without being too rigid about the approach.

[Jason]

Meh. Didn’t learn all that much from this one. Had hoped for more after reading Liz Steele’s 5-Minute Architecture.

[Elna]

Definitely lots of tips in here, but nothing really instructional. You need to have foundational drawing knowledge/skills in order to best appreciate this book.

[John]

I'll be dipping in and out this tomb at regular intervals.

[Katy Lovejoy]

I can't draw and while there are a lot of tips I doubt this will help

[Martha]

already have my own copy on order

[Carolien]

Architecture : super-quick techniques for amazing drawings / Steel, Liz, library