It’s occurring once more, Monday March 3, 2025 – time once more for our annual street-sketching marathon, #OneWeek100People! < See the previous years occasions right here! ]
That is, in fact, our enjoyable exercise the place we attempt to sketch 100 individuals in a single week. That’s roughly 20 a day if you happen to prefer to have your weekends free.
I’m an enormous fan of City Sketching, by which the ‘guidelines’ are to attract from life. However I’m additionally allergic to guidelines usually; so I’m not going to fuss if you happen to use photographs, draw from a film, your personal creativeness, or no matter it takes to hit 100 individuals in per week.
The purpose is pure self-directed sketching-for-the-love. (Or the coaching – if you happen to’re out to grasp the talent as quick as potential.) When you simply wish to observe anatomy, let’s go for it collectively. If you wish to go expertise your metropolis first-hand, let’s get out and sketch within the streets.
Me personally, I’m completely going to strive once more for 100 in a single day. It’s a lot enjoyable for me to bask in some HYPERFOCUS 🙂 I’ve been in a position to do it prior to now, however I wish to push myself additional. To do increasingly more subtle work in the identical intense timeframe. I’m remembering my faculty days of 30 second and 1 minute gesture drawing. Time to get again to that form of eye-hand dexterity.
So let’s do it collectively! Hashtag #OneWeek100People in your socials – put up your work! – touch upon different individuals! – let’s have enjoyable motivating one another.
However right here is the large change for 2025; We’re CLOSING THE FACEBOOK GROUP the place we have now finished lots of the posting and sharing over the primary eight years.
FB and different Socials have been important within the unfold of City Sketching as a past-time. They’ve helped me meet artists from everywhere in the globe. Daily it continues to carry me artwork and leisure. However I discover as I grow old, I’m much less and fewer in a position to sustain with the stream of data and nonetheless get something finished on the similar time.
I really like private challenges like #OneWeek100People for this very motive. They provide my attention-deficit mind the construction that I want 🙂
So I’ve determined to deal with MAKING the artwork, and to step again from MODERATING the neighborhood.
I hope you’ll all perceive!
And please, do be at liberty to START YOUR OWN GROUPS. I don’t really feel we have now any form of possession over this idea. Please steal this concept! Liz Metal and I launched this collectively in 2017, merely as an excuse to attract with one another 🙂 Anybody can attain out to their very own socials. Tag a sketcher you like on-line. Construct you personal communities.
Take care and see you all right here, and on the hashtag #OneWeek100People! – Monday March 3, 2025!
