Little People –

Basics
120 illustrations of little stick figures in basic postures
– standing, sitting, lying, walking, running and jumping.

A printable resource by Eva-Lotta Lamm

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Hello,

thank you for downloading a sample of the Little People

Basics printable resource.

This PDF is meant to give you a flavour of what the full

resource is like and what you can do with it.

Sketching people holds so many possibilites for playing

around and exploring how variations to the posture, face
or body changes the expression and the meaning of your
drawing. The possibilities are endless and there is a lot to
discover when you start to experiment.

I hope you’ll enjoy sketching and practicing with these little

people as much as I enjoyed creating them.

Happy sketching and practicing!

Please note:

I made the illustrations in this PDF as inspiration for your

sketching practice. Please honour the origin of these
illustrations by quoting their source when you copy / re-draw
them and post the resulting drawing on social media. Please
mention my instagram handle @evalottchen and the hashtag
#lotsoflittlepeople in the caption of your post.

Also: Please don’t share this PDF. If anyone you know is

interested to get this resource for themselves, just send
them to my website www.evalotta.shop/littlepeople.
This keeps my little shop alive :)

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Playing with the LitTle People Templates

You can use the different little people poses to create

your own characters and variations. Here’s how it works.

Import the template JPG into

Choose a your favourite drawing app.
little person
you would
like to work
with.

Create a new layer

for your drawing.

Maybe you want to

lower the opacity
Copy the person Print out the template of the imported
lightly with a pencil. sheet to draw on. template a bit.

Use a black pen to Draw your own figure

draw the face, emotions, on the new layer, adding
hairstyle, clothes, and other the face, emotions, hairstyle,
details over the ‘skeleton’ of clothes, and other details over the
the figure. Have fun :) ‘skeleton’ of the figure. Woohoo!

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Creating DiFferent exPreSsions
Direction of Gaze

Our attention goes where we direct our gaze.

The placement of the eyes and nose changes the expression of
the pose significantly.

EyeBrows

Eyebrows express emotions – especially strong emotions like

anger, surprise and sadness.

EyeS

When the eyes are neutrally open, simple dots are enough.
When they are shut or opened wide, they change shape.

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Bringing it all Together

Choose a little Copy the contour lightly Draw over the template with a black pen
person. with a pencil or start adding the face, emotions, hairstyles,
from the grey template clothes, speech and any other detail to
version. create a character and their little story.
Surprise yourself, how many variations
you can create from each posture.

Some Examples

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More Examples

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Did you enjoy this sample?
Then you should get the full version of this printable and keep practicing to
sketch more little people.

The complete version contains the following elements:

Little People Basics – Templates (PDF)

120 Little People illustrations in different basic poses:
standing, walking, running, jumping, sitting & lying in two
variations.
Each illustration is available in two version:
• Version 1: black line drawing with basic face
• Version 2: grey line drawing without face to use a as
base to draw your own variations

Little People Basics – Importable templates

for digital sketching (JPG)
The grey line drawings are also available as JPGs (10
sheets of 12 illustrations) that can be imported into digital
drawing programs to use as templates to sketch your own
variations on top.

Little People – How to play with the

templates (PDF)
10-page PDF that explains how to practice with the
templates, showing different variations to try to create
different expressions, characters and little stories.

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