People and dogs
Posted: November 27, 2025 Filed under: Uncategorized 9 CommentsI couldn’t get to the donut shop to draw today. Instead I spent a few hours doing a long overdue studio cleanup, and then set up for a short session of drawing practice, using my own photos as reference.
In an attempt to get better at putting people into urban scenes when I am sketching on location, I selected pedestrians from a series of photos I took last year when I was in the UK. I selected each of them because they were moving, and I tried to capture their motion. I’m hoping that if I do enough of these, when I have real people moving in front of me, I will having some drawing memory of how all the bits fit together. To that, I added some dogs, since I also want to get better at drawing dogs other than Alice.
And to all my American friends, Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you are enjoying a wonderful day with family and friends like we did last month on Canadian Thanksgiving.
Great drawings: both the people and the dogs! You’ve captured them perfectly.
People and dogs, such a challenge and I guess like many things, practice, practice, practice. Thanks for sharing this!
Love your drawings. I have just started similar exercises except mine are only portraits so far and not my own photos either – but magazines. For learning and practice I don’t think it matters where you find your subjects.
Love these! (And I hope this means there might be classes in the future on painting people and dogs?)
Shari…you knock me out! These are excellent. Good idea and motivating me to try that too.
Great job, they all have personality
Love the dogs!
wonderful sketches. dynamic, heart warming. thank you
Thank you so much Tulay.