10 Step Drawing: People

Justine Lecouffe is an artist, illustrator, and graphic designer based in London, UK. She creates digital and traditional hand drawings encompassing fashion, beauty, architecture, and travel, for clients in a wide range of industries, from book publishing to branding for jewellery and fashion designers. Her work has been published in a number of books, including Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls and her major clients include Apple, O2, The National Trust, NHS, Redbull, Nivea and Pandora.

I found this book to be extremely helpful in learning to draw people. It is easy to draw what you think you see rather than what you actually see and whilst this book is encouraging you to draw people from simple shapes, it does give you the insight to take this new understanding of basic shapes to apply to real life drawing. I have struggled with drawing people accurately, so I found the use of simple shapes and explanation of proportion a really useful tool.I was impressed by how, with only a few simple lines, a concise drawing was created. My children also really enjoyed the premise of the book and I will be using it with them. Overall, I think this is a great book to encourage people to start drawing and I believe it has the ability to instil confidence in them so that they are able to move forward and draw more and more. The book also dips in to the use of colour and tone, explained in clear terms, even using a method to draw lines to explain where shading should go. So, in summary, a great book to encourage people into drawing people but may not be for everyone.

• Introduction 6How to use this book 7Facial Features & FacesFront viewSide viewFemale faces 44Male faces 56Three-quarter viewFemale faces 68Male faces 78Body Parts & FiguresFemale proportions 84Male proportions 86Easy standing woman 104Standing party girl 106Chic standing woman 108Crouching woman 110Sitting girl 112Cool female pose 114Easy standing boy 116Male standing pose 118Skater boy 120Male guitar player 122Perching man 124Leaning man 126About the artist 128Acknowledgements 128