One Week 100 People 2024: Day 1

An inauspicious start for this year’s one week 100 people drawing challenge: I hurt my shoulder yesterday and now it’s extremely painful to draw with it. So today’s sketch batch is just five sketches, done with a vintage Radius Comet fountain pen and Diamine Anaranth ink on a hardcover landscape Stillman and Birn Alpha.

These were all sketched from Creative Commons Flickr photos, working for no more than 1-2 minutes per sketch, directly with pen and ink. The expressiveness of this nib has been a lot of fun. Number 5 is my favourite so far, which one is yours?

As I noted earlier, I’ve decided to only post these on my blog this year and not on social media.

10 thoughts on “One Week 100 People 2024: Day 1”

  2. miatagrrl

    Oh no, I’m sorry to hear about your shoulder! I like all of these! Do you know about Earthsworld? His Instagram is filled with thousands of candid portraits he has taken at places like state fairs. He allows use to artists totally free! He also has a website: Earthsworld.com (In case you want more reference photos that can be used free)

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  5. Pascal (peacockpens.com)

    Is this challenge still on? Anyway best of luck with your shoulder and your drawing challenge! I’m on a 1000 portrait drawing challenge for this year (now at 198/1000), I know how difficult it is to find motivation to do almost 15 drawings a day ;-), looking forward to the results.

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