Drawing people
Brief description of the topic
The ability to quickly draw people is a very useful skill that is worth mastering. In this module, we will figure out where we can use people's drawings, why we will do it, and also learn how to draw 3 types of people's drawings:
- smiles. They are used to visually encode and convey emotions, feelings and states, as well as abstract concepts associated with them.
- portraits. With their help, we transmit information about a person's belonging to any group by gender, age, profession, nationality, etc.
- people in full growth. We draw them in order to show movement, position, interaction, as well as abstract concepts related by feelings, emotions and relationships.
Images of people always attract attention, because this is how our brain works. He always strives to take out images of faces in order to determine if there is a danger or not.
Using characters helps make the story we tell more catchy. When in history there is a character who is similar to us, we begin to empathize with him, associate him with ourselves, get involved in the story and interact.
Draw people
To begin with, let's figure out why it is important for us to be able to draw people and use these drawings in our work.
● People love people.
● People love stories about people.
● People like to associate themselves or their loved ones with other people.
This is how our brain works. Remember the function of the reptilian brain “beat-run-freeze”? For an ancient person, the greatest danger could come from animals and other people, so our brains learned to instantly distinguish between faces and read emotions to make decisions. We see hundreds and thousands of faces every day, but if in a crowd of people we accidentally meet our first teacher, we will definitely recognize her. This is the function of our brain. That is why we see faces in inanimate objects: switches, taps, patterns on carpets. Our brain loves faces.
Therefore, when you draw people, you attract the attention of the audience.
If you are telling a story verbally or visually, use characters that will be close to your audience. For example, instead of telling a depersonalized story: “Scientists have found that teens are 12-15 years old ..”, draw a character: “This is Kolya, he is 13 years old and he is ...”. It will be easier for adolescents to associate themselves with the character and perceive the information you want to convey. This will help you not only attract attention, but also include the audience in the story you are telling.
1 type of drawings of people. Emoticons.
Smilies - a schematic image of a person's face with emotion.
We draw emoticons to visually encode and convey emotions, feelings and states, as well as abstract concepts associated with them. You can also enter emoticons as a rating scale: bad, neutral, good, or code rules: forbidden / allowed. You can see emoticons every day in the form of emoji in your smartphones.
Remember that we simplify the drawings as much as possible and leave only those elements that make sense.
2 type of drawings of people. Portraits.
A portrait is not necessarily an image of a particular person or character. With the help of portraits, we transmit information about a person's belonging to any group by gender, age, profession, nationality, etc.
Portraits can be more detailed and illustrative if you prepare a hand-drawn presentation in advance.
It is also simpler and more sketchy if you are doing graphic facilitation on a flipchart or blackboard.
Start with the shape of the face, then schematically add a hairstyle and facial features, think about what are the distinguishing features and add them.
With the help of portraits, we can also create characters with which we will communicate. Remember that the character should be close to your audience, bear its main features and inspire confidence.
3 type of drawings of people. In full growth.
We draw people to their full height in order to show movement, position, interaction, as well as abstract concepts related by feelings, emotions and relationships.
There are several ways to draw a person in full growth. The fastest, most accurate and most convenient for graphic facilitation is a human star.
You can also draw a person not to his full height, but only to the waist, if this is not necessary and the main meaning is not lost. For example, people sitting at the table and discussing something together or people sailing in the same boat (team).
You can draw people in any way convenient for you, making the drawings simple and sketchy so that they encode information.