Another challenge done! The just-concluded #oneweek100people2019 initiated by Marc Taro Holmes, Liz Steel, and Suhita Shirodkar was a fantastic way to brush up on drawing people again. This year, my goal was to (1) understand more about gestural drawing and (2) be quicker with drawing people so I can incorporate into my urban sketches.
These are my sketches this year…
DAY 1:
Was on a business trip so drew people at the railway station waiting area.
Day 2:
I tried (or planned) to do more but after my morning quick sketch at a nearby coffee shop, I didn’t get any chance to do anymore.
Below is the colour version which I ended up doing in the evening.
Day 3:
Managed to actually head out early and check out a nearby park. A really small one but it’s in a quiet neighbourhood and there were a lot of aged p’s doing their exercises or morning gossip. LOL!
Day 4:
Drawing from photo except for my colleague having his lunch as there was no time to stop and sketch. (Yet again I got stuck at home!)
Day 6:
Fully occupied with meetings on Day 5 so had to make up for my quota on this day.
Day 7:
This day gave me a couple opportunities to sit outside and sketch people using the gestural sketching I was learning on Day 6. I got to go to the Shaoxing Park again from Day 3 and then had more time at the Fuxing Park. Watched a guy and an old woman doing their taichi exercises.
My favourite sketch was this last spread of men playing cards. (They were probably gambling…) I decided to leave these last sketches without colour. Not perfect but that’s fine with me… my brush pen ran out of ink…
Super hyped that I got more than 100 sketches this year and so want to do more as practise. Definitely something I want to do again on 2020!
Thank you for reading.
I love your art! Where did you learn to paint and to draw like that?
Hi, Laureen! Thank you very much! I pretty much learned some of the traditional methods at university (eons ago, it seems) and rest pretty much thru practice… Thank you again!
My pleasure:)