DId I draw 100 people last week? Yes I did! #OneWeek100People2026

This year I took part in #OneWeek100People2026 - this is a challenge organized by @lizsteelart and @m.holmes.art - they run it every year - sometimes via facebook, sometimes on instagram - but the idea is to give your people sketching muscles a workout for a week. I encourage you to check out a blog post from Liz as this year she drew 100 people twice and got interviewed about the project by Guardian - here is a link to the article! 

I love drawing people from life and really enjoyed making this challenge all about my neighborhood in 2025. But my schedule this time around did not allow for so many real-life opportunities - only sketches in the first image were drawn from life:

To get to a 100 I drew from youtube videos - researching movements of tennis players and archers:

And I drew with the wonderful online portrait party drawing group: pencils4tea

And then I joined a super fun 40 min drawing session that Suhita Shirodkar ran this year - her guest artist was a wonderful artist from New Zealand: Andrew James, and we drew musicians:

And on Thursday I was a guest artist at Suhita's substack gathering and we drew from the photos of Ukrainian photographer Alexandra Bolotina. She was a travel and portrait photographer before the full-scale invasion of russian army into Ukraine in 2022 and today her work is spread to photography, organizing creation of adaptive clothing for people who suffered injuries in the war and support children with disabilities. She lives and works in Kharkiv, Ukraine. You can support her work via PayPal donation - send me a note and I will connect you. 

Here is a link to a video recording of our session with Suhita Shirodkar where you can see original photos and process of how these quick portraits were created.