Can you draw people?

Drawn in the Lion House, London Zoo, 1975

“Do you draw people?” the editor asked me as she looked through my sketchbooks.

Ocelot, student sketchbook

If I could draw gorillas surely it would be obvious that I’d be able to draw people too? But I decided to make a special effort.

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iPad drawing using Apple Pencil in Clip Studio Paint, drawn with the ‘Textured pen’ and the ‘Watery ink’ brush.

I enrolled on a weekly life drawing evening, which I kept up for years and I set off to the local market and, over the period of several weeks, filled it with drawings of people. Wakefield had a large open market and a market hall and you got a full range of different people shopping or just browsing there.

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