113 in the Books!

 

3/3/25 Metro Market parking lot

One Week 100 People is always my favorite annual drawing challenge. Lasting only five days, it’s intense and challenging but also short and entirely doable because it has no restrictions. Sketches can be done from life, from photos, posed, candid, whatever. The only goal is to practice drawing people as much as possible for five days.

3/3/25 Metro Market parking lot

My personal goal has always been to draw all one hundred from life. The pandemic year made that difficult, so I tried to do a hundred selfies (I only made it to 58, the only year I didn’t hit a hundred). The other years were completed from life. This was my ninth consecutive year participating, and I had a ball!

3/4/25 Victrola Coffee

As I usually do, I chose simple materials that would enable me to capture quick gestures, no details and no color. This year I chose my favorite Pentel Pocket Brush Pen with occasional spots of a white Sakura Gelly Roll. Of course, my trusty daily-carry Uglybook was the best place to put all those people!

3/4/25 Victrola Coffee

Shown here are Nos. 1 through 82. Tomorrow I’ll show the rest. (Sorry that these got out of order . . . Blogger is not very friendly when uploading multiple images at once.)

3/4/25 Aegis Living and Victrola Coffee

3/4/25 Green Lake and Aegis Living

3/5/25 Bellevue Square (this spread and all that follow). This day was especially fun as it was with USk Seattle, and we were all working on our 100 people!

Bellevue Square turned out to be a particularly useful place to practice people walking up and down stairs. The handrail walls are transparant, so it was easy to see the legs and feet. Not easy to draw them, though!