It’s almost time for this challenge again, the one where you draw a hundred people all during one (work) week. You might already know of the #OneWeek100People challenge. And if you don’t, here is a pretty detailed post from Marc Holmes, who along with Liz Steel, runs this challenge.
I tell everyone in all my People Sketching workshops to join in. It is an intensive, no-judgement way to get a lot of practice in, and have community to share with and learn from.
While the challenge has no rules about how you draw people, I usually stick with urban sketching. That’s going to be a bit of a challenge this year, as the county I live in still has covid cases and lockdown restrictions in place. So I’ve been try to make a list of alternative things I can do.
Here are some ideas:
- I’ll still try and get in some drawing on location. That might mean parking myself at a safe distance outside a grocery store and drawing shoppers. Or sitting in the park and sketching the walkers and joggers.
• I could use photo references to work on portraits. Or I might just do some self-portraits and try something interesting with them. Like this piece where I looked at myself in the mirror and drew the right side with my dominant hand and the left side with my non-dominant one.
• I’ve been joining online life drawing sessions every once in a while and I might do a session or two that week.
Some of the lifedrawing sessions I’ve enjoyed have been with
@bayareamodelsguild http://www.bayareamodelsguild.org/
@lifefiguredrawing https://www.lifefiguredrawing.com
@londondrawing This group has live sessions as well as recordings you can purchase so you can sketch on your own time: https://londondrawing.com/product-category/online-class-recordings/recordings-of-online-life-drawing/
@artmakessense https://www.artmakessense.life/
Here are some more ideas from Marc Holmes:
- download the Sktchy app on your phone for lots of people drawing references.
- use the YouTube channel, CroquisCafe (for nude figures)
- watch a movie or TV show and draw from it.
That seems like a lot of things to work with, doesn’t it? Now go make a plan for that week. 20 people a day isn’t impossible but it takes some planning. Join the facebook group and get inspired by the work shared there. Or just use the tag #OneWeek100People on any social media you share on.
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Hi Suhita!
\Love following your work and would love to take a beginning sketcher course with lots of body drawing…. How can I find this and do this on my own time, as I work as a nurse and my hours can often be inconsistent with taking a scheduled class I ts the one week 100 people a class that could be taken any time once payed for or does it end at the end of its week? Any other recommendations would be appreciated, I would like to dedicate 15 minutes a day to drawing….. I feel like a have no talent but love the energy of people and line! Stephanie
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Stephanie, #oneweek100people is NOT a class, just an open challenge so we all do something intensive and work on our own timeline.
I just opened up a 4-week people drawing class starting end of this month where you can either attend live or watch the 2 hour session on your own time but do the homework within the week and submit it. If you are interested, the link is here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/people-alive-sketches-full-of-life-tickets-143399360347
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Thanks! I have also ripped out some pages from fashion magazines that show models in unusual poses and plan to do those ( small) on a page with my brush pen to practice thick and thin shapes
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Good idea! and planning helps because the worst thing is having an hour a day and spending half of it wondering what to do…
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Hi Suhita
My youngest brother and I made an interesting photo which might be a fun exercise for this 100 people challenge .
We took the upper part of a photo of me and combined it with the lower part of his , to “create ” another “sibling “. We do resemble each other a lot , but I don’t think that is necessary.
( I am a 53 year old woman with ” big hair ” and he has the same color of hair and a bushy beard ).
It came out amazingly well and a bit spooky but we had a lot of laughter .
I never thought of drawing it but if you guys run out of people and faces “roll your own ” ?
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that is such a fun idea!
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Very interesting sketches of people.
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