OneWeek100People 2024 – Getting to 100

I totally forgot about One Week 100 People this year! I had so much fun doing this challenge last year and I actually was looking forward to it again but completely forgot to check the dates. So it apparently started Monday the 11th and runs until Friday. I started to play catch up last night and just went to my Pinterest board from the previous year as there are about 300 people pins that I never got to.

Drawing feels much easier than in the previous year, although I think I haven´t sketched any people since then. Anyhow, great practice and warm up for other drawings. I will try to make it to 100 until the end of the week. Currently I am at #37.

Are you taking part?

2403 One week 100 people sketches_ Melanie Franz
2403 One week 100 people sketches_ Melanie Franz

Inktober 2023 Roundup

Despite having been late to the party, I really enjoyed the Inktober challenge as every year and I am really happy with the outcome. Just like in the previous years, I was not sure where the journey would take me. And as every year I am happy about what I learned and the results.

I got so much positive feedback about the little turtle and spider, that I am considering of putting an actual children´s book together with these two characters. So watch this space.

Here are all of the 32 drawings ( yes, I did one extra because I had so much fun)

Did you do inktober? What is your take away from the challenge?

Inktober 2023 – Catch me if you can…

Still catching up with the last Inktober prompts. Will be finishing one day late which is not so bad considering that I drew all the prompts within 4 days!

#18 Saddle

23_18 Saddle_Inktober 2023_Melanie Franz

#19 Plump

I ended up doing two versions of it.

23_19 Plump 2_Inktober 2023_Melanie Franz
23_19 Plump_Inktober 2023_Melanie Franz

#21 Chains

23_21 Chains_Inktober 2023_Melanie Franz

Catching up with Inktober 2023 #2

I surprised myself yesterday! I actually managed to do the first 10 prompts in a day. I manage another 10 today I might be on track tomorrow…

#4 Dodge

23_04 Dodge_Inktober_ Melanie Franz

#5 Map

23_05 Map_Inktober_ Melanie Franz

Catching up with Inktober 2023

It´s been a while, but I am still here! I have been doing Inktober diligently every year since 2017 and I was excited about this one. However life happened and I didn´t find time until now to get started.

Seems my Inktober 2023 will be quick doodles and turtle themed and a way to test out my brand new coloured inks!

23_01-dream _ Inktober 2023 _ Melanie Franz
#1 Dream
23_03-path _ Inktober 2023 _ Melanie Franz
#3 Path

One Week 100 People

It took me much longer than a week, due to the flu, but I eventually finished them all. I also was colouring some of them in and still want to colour in the rest. I really struggled in the end to get to 100 but I can also see a definite improvement from the first page. I haven’t been drawing people for a while, so this was a great exercise.

Next I think I will do 100 animals 🙂

One Week 100 People III

Here come number 10 to 14. Combination of watercolour, coloured pencils and for number 12-14 I used olive green ink for the outline that I bought some time ago but never used.

One Week 100 People

It´s time again for this fun annual art challenge – One week 100 people. And it´s exactly that, you got one week to draw 100 people in any way you like.

I am using the opportunity to challenge myself to do some quick character sketches by using pinterest as inspiration. So far I´ve been having fun with it. Are you taking part in the challenge?

One Week 100 People – Day 4

Had to play catch up as a was a bit behind schedule on day 3. Have to say that it still takes me way too long with drawing these.

#OneWeek100People

Realized this morning that #OneWeek100People is on again. Last year I missed it as I was on holiday. So spontaneously decided to sit down and give it a go. Oh boy am I rusty in drawing people. I would be much faster in drawing 1000 capybaras I guess.

Here are the first 20 people… Taken from pinterest.