It’s happening again, Monday March 3, 2025 – time again for our annual street-sketching marathon, #OneWeek100People! < See the past years events here! ]
This is, of course, our fun activity where we try to sketch 100 people in a single week. That’s roughly 20 a day if you like to have your weekends free.
I’m a huge fan of Urban Sketching, in which the ‘rules’ are to draw from life. But I’m also allergic to rules in general; so I’m not going to fuss if you use photos, draw from a movie, your own imagination, or whatever it takes to hit 100 people in a week.
The goal is pure self-directed sketching-for-the-love. (Or the training – if you’re out to master the skill as fast as possible.) If you just want to practice anatomy, let’s go for it together. If you want to go experience your city first-hand, let’s get out and sketch in the streets.
Me personally, I’m absolutely going to try again for 100 in a single day. It’s so much fun for me to indulge in some HYPERFOCUS :) I’ve been able to do it in the past, but I want to push myself further. To do more and more sophisticated work in the same intense timeframe. I’m remembering my college days of 30 second and 1 minute gesture drawing. Time to get back to that kind of eye-hand dexterity.
So let’s do it together! Hashtag #OneWeek100People on your socials – post your work! – comment on other people! – let’s have fun motivating each other.
But here is the big change for 2025; We are CLOSING THE FACEBOOK GROUP where we have done a lot of the posting and sharing over the first eight years.
FB and other Socials have been essential in the spread of Urban Sketching as a past-time. They’ve helped me meet artists from all over the globe. Every day it continues to bring me art and entertainment. But I find as I get older, I am less and less able to keep up with the stream of information and still get anything done at the same time.
I love personal challenges like #OneWeek100People for this very reason. They give my attention-deficit brain the structure that I need :)
So I’ve decided to focus on MAKING the art, and to step back from MODERATING the community.
I hope you will all understand!
And please, do feel free to START YOUR OWN GROUPS. I don’t feel we have any sort of ownership over this concept. Please steal this idea! Liz Steel and I launched this together in 2017, simply as an excuse to draw with each other :) Anyone can reach out to their own socials. Tag a sketcher you love online. Build you own communities.
Take care and see you all here, and at the hashtag #OneWeek100People! – Monday March 3, 2025!
