105 With a Day to Spare

3/8/18 (5-min. poses)

It’s obvious: The easiest thing to do during the #oneweek100people challenge is to go to a life drawing session! But I’m getting ahead of myself.

Yesterday I hit Northgate Mall again – this time in the middle of the mall at a table facing a coffee shop instead of the food court. From there, I could see people queuing up for coffee in one direction and streaming by me on either side. I finished 24 in an hour, bringing my total to 66.

Then this afternoon I spent three hours at a Gage life drawing session, and I easily made 39 more drawings. So now I’m at 105, with a day to spare! I’ll probably do a few more tomorrow anyway, just for fun.

And it was all fun! It was productive to have a specific goal: Use a brush pen to make as few marks as possible to evoke a unique individual, not a generic symbol. I kept most of my sketches very small – no more than a few inches – to get as many done as possible.

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At life drawing, I wasn’t thinking about One Week 100 People – I just did my usual thing. In retrospect, though, I realize that my habit during life drawing is essentially the same as the challenge: To try to capture the essence of the model’s pose with as few marks as possible. And it’s all just practice – something I feel strongly about.

I’ve been so focused on doing my 100 that I haven’t spent much time looking at the drawings of other participants. I’m going to do that now, and I hope to see yours among the hashtags! 

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