Sketching-People

STAGING PEOPLE
Staging is a tool to show the audience relationships between
people. When sketching, you will take your blocking cues
from how the people you are drawing interact. But just as
you have to design your characters’ appearances, you also
have to design the staging to show how your characters feel
about each other. Just as with everything else to this point,
the drawing has to be influenced by what’s really happening,
but you aren’t copying exactly what you see.
STAGING & VANTAGE POINT
Another story of two strangers
meeting, this time on an
airplane. Here, the vantage
point from behind uses the
seats to give them a sense
of privacy and intimacy. The
staging uses vantage point
combined with body language
to tell the story.
STAGING TELLS A STORY
Here the costume and setting
set the stage in a ski lodge,
but the story comes from the
two characters’ interaction.
While both characters’ bodies
are facing away from each
other, suggesting that they
are strangers, they share an
inviting look that suggests
they may be interested in getting
to know each other better.