5-Minute Sketching People

5-Minute Sketching People: Super-Quick Techniques for Amazing Drawings by renowned Urban Sketcher Pete Scully offers a well-organized approach to capturing people on location. Every chapter is broken down into easy-to-follow steps in this approachable guide. With chapters like “Fast texture,” “Speedy scribbling” and “Hasty hatching,” this book is a fun and inspiring resource. Pete covers fundamentals while also delving deeper into capturing people, with his own artwork alongside illustrated examples from other artists.

5-Minute Sketching People is one edition in the 5-Minute Sketching Series, a collection of four compact references on techniques and advice for sketching landscapes, animals and pets, architecture, and people.

Pictured: Brussels Rue des Bouchers by Pete Scully.

Pete Scully is an urban sketcher from London who currently resides in Davis, California, where he hosts a monthly sketch crawl called “Let’s Draw Davis.” Since 2008, he has been the Davis correspondent for Urban Sketchers, and his work is featured in The Art of Urban Sketching by Gabriel Campanario, the founder of Urban Sketchers.

Pete’s first book, Creative Sketching Workshop, was published by North Light Books and Apple Press in 2015. His second book, 5-Minute Sketching People, was published in October 2016 by Firefly in the US and Apple Press in the UK.

Learn about Pete’s work at petescully.com.