People Watching

Another of my goals for this year was to draw people. I need a whole lot of practice and while the ideal would be to draw from life, I feel like I need to start with people who are not moving. While out on my walks these past few weeks, I have been discreetly photographing people dressed in their warm winter outerwear. Then when I get home, I draw from my photos. As yet I haven't been putting a lot of detail in my sketches so I can concentrate on the shapes, body language and clothing.

The seated guy was drawn from life as I waited in the hospital during my sister's surgery. He was on his I-pad the whole time so he didn't move much.

This little guy was done from a photo in a magazine.