#drawing crowds

[summerdragoness]

Question for comic/manga artists:

How do you visualize and then apply a scene/scenes involving crowds without making the crowds appear static or boring? I can barely visualize 2-3 characters together doing different things, but I will need to include large crowds the future. Examples of scenes like in Wind Breaker, or Existence, JJK. (shares appreciated because I really would like some help here)

[erlson]

This is what a lot of people will be doing tonight.

[benboston]

I want to to try to incorporate crowds into my artwork. I draw a lot of giant ladies, but I feel like the crowd is her equal. Tiny persons on their own are feeble fragile fragments of a greater whole, but the mass, the mob I feel like that’s a character she can bounce off of.

[jamienoguchi]

New video! Please excuse the choppyness of the me parts. I gotta figure out the right shutterspeed, but the demo parts are fine.