The One Week One Hundred Challenge was created by artists Liz Steel and Marc Taro Holmes. The name is self-explanatory: the goal is to draw 100 people in a span of five days. I did it for the first time last year. At the time, the pandemic was looming; I did the challenge a week before New York locked down. Looking back at it now, what I'm struck by is that I mostly drew faces. Almost no one was wearing a face mask. This year, I drew hardly any unmasked faces, except for my family at home.
Some people did this challenge using photos or video images, but I always want to do it all from life. I've been trying to level up my figure drawing, and this is a great way to motivate yourself to do very fast observation and really practice gesture drawing without getting bogged down in details or rendering.
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