Ending With Shapes

 

Yes, I did make it to 100 last night.  After playing around with different pencils and pens for a couple of days I returned to my favorite method for drawing people - shapes rather than lines.  A waterbrush and watercolour are the best tools for this.

A quick search on my blog tells me that this is how I did the entire challenge in 2019.  I'd forgotten how much easier this is for me; obviously I don't draw people much.

A little line work added now that they are dry might be fun too, and might make the end result better.  Or not. LOL

Without A Plan

 

I didn't plan to participate in #oneweek100people this year, but it turned out to be a great thing to do at midnight when trying to stay awake.  (I'm restricting my sleep in an attempt to improve my insomnia.)

Each year, urban sketchers Marc Taro Holmes and Liz Steel run this drawing challenge with the simple goal to draw 100 people in 1 week.  It really helps to have a plan and/or approach going into this challenge, and when I picked it up I had neither.  I only had a need to stay awake, a new Talbots catalogue and a bright (?) idea in a foggy brain.  The first day of the challenge was almost over!

These were done with a Pilot Parallel Pen and walnut ink.  I took a course last weekend which used this pen for calligraphy and gave me encouragement to dust mine off and just play!

By Wednesday I developed a bit of a plan and an approach to finish.  A bit of research informed me that this 1 week challenge is actually only 5 days, so 37 in 2 days wasn't quite going to get me there!  Stay tuned for the exciting conclusion.....

#oneweek100people

Marc Taro Holmes, Liz Steel and Suhita Shirodkar are running the OneWeek100People challenge again this year.  The objective is to draw 100 people in one week, in order to improve your people drawing skills.

I might participate this year, so I've been strategizing about how to do that.

I think that it might be easier to "paint shapes" first and draw after, so I tried this out in my sketchbook.  It took longer for the paint to dry than to do either the painting or the drawing.  Speed is critical for drawing people in real life because they tend to move around.