ワークショップレビュー。カオスをとらえ、群衆を描く。

By Suhita Shirodkar

It’s always an honor to teach at an Urban Sketchers Symposium. I was thrilled to teach again this year. My workshop in Singapore was titled カオスをとらえる。群衆を描く. Here is a recap of the experience – and a downloadable pdf of my handout.

What better place to draw a crowd of people than at the Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple (Chinese temple) on Waterloo Street? This is one of the demo sketches I did at the workshop: the ornate temple in the background, colorful red and yellow umbrellas with flower and incense vendors and the crowds that pass through.

Part 1 of the workshop was sketching people using quick line-of-action sketches.

I love this first bit, because we invariably begin with many of the participants claiming they can’t draw people, but halfway through the workshop, they proceed to draw pages of very convincing figures.

In Part 2, we talk about putting it all together to create a single sketch of a crowd.

To capture the crowd, we worked in alternating steps of structured and unstructured sketching, embracing this contradiction. The opening statement on the handout outlines the approach we used through the rest of the workshop.

Here are some shots from the workshop. It was a hot, humid, and challenging 3.5 hours, but the participants were super enthusiastic and we ended up with some really interesting captures of life on Waterloo Street, Singapore.

These are shots of sketches-in-progress by workshop participants.

I posted a link to a downloadable pdf of my workshop handout ( and some added notes) 私のブログで紹介します。