One Week 100 People 2022 Sketch Challenge

One week 100 People Sketch Challenge

March 8-12, 2021 – Pandemic Relief Edition!

I love sketching people in ink, and this annual sketching event #OneWeek100People was made for me! I like to think of it as the sketching Olympics. It’s an event that I can train for, so that I can hit the ground running when this art challenge rolls around again. This event is in it’s 6th year, and is hosted by urban sketcher’s Marc Taro Holmes and Liz Steel.

One Week 100 People 2022

The only mistake I made with the 2022 event was my choice of sketchbook. I special-ordered a concertina sketchbook. But when it arrived I was disappointed to discover the pages were 100% cotton paper, which isn’t really conducive to my style of sketching. It’s great for loose, wet on wet painting. But I like sketching directly with fountain pen, and my nibs didn’t like the paper at all.

Sketching wasn’t effortless, and I didn’t like the paper’s texture. So although I took part in the event, it wasn’t as enjoyable as I thought it would be. But I finished the challenge and drew 100 figures. Below is a selection (about half) of the sketches I drew.

Urban Sketches

Here’s a selection of live sketches I did on public transport, at cafes and the local farmer’s market:

The great thing about looking back on these images is that I remember each and every one of these people I sketched. I remember the market I went to and the cafes I sat at and the journeys I took. These sketches captured a moment in time, and that’s the wonderful thing about urban sketching people.

Sketching from Photographs

At the time the Russian Invasion of Ukraine was all in the news so I created a couple of compilations from various news source images.

One week 100 People Sketch Challenge
Refugees
One week 100 People Sketch Challenge
Refugees

Creating your own compositions from multiple sources to sketch a group is a great way to get practice at sketching live groups of people.

Sketching from Imagination

I also used this sketch event to try an abstract composition. This was towards the end of the event, and I was running out of time, so I drew these loose people sketches to fill up one of my pages.

One Week 100 People 2022

I’m already looking forward to next year’s event, and seeing how my sketching skills have improved over the year. If you love sketching people, then this is the one must-attend event to get on your calendar.

Author: Roving Jay

Jay is a project manager who swapped corporate life for a nomadic existence as a travel writer. She works with authors and entrepreneurs to help them achieve their self-publishing goals and reach their target audience through content marketing. Jay has published a series of travel guides, a travel memoir, and nonfiction books about travel writing. She housesits and volunteers around the globe with her husband, a Hollywood set painter, and she’s never more that 10 paces away from a wi-fi connection.

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