"Liz and I started the challenge as an excuse to keep drawing together. Speaking selfishly, this event is my free pass to spend an entire week drawing. Steel says sketching people wasn't always her forte, but it's no understatement to say that sketching the world around me changed my life and my career."
"The goal of 100 is intentionally ambitious. Holmes says high targets encourage drawing without self-criticism. Quantity is the only goal, not quality, he says. Secretly, that's the best way to improve your drawing. There's a special type of magic in the momentum, Steel says. It's about practice rather than perfection."
The #OneWeek100People challenge is a global artistic initiative co-founded by Liz Steel and Marc Taro Holmes that invites artists to sketch 100 people within seven days. Now in its 10th year, the challenge originated from the founders' desire to stay connected after meeting at the International Urban Sketchers Symposium in Lisbon in 2011. The challenge has grown into a widespread phenomenon within the Urban Sketchers community, with hundreds participating worldwide. Steel and Holmes emphasize that the challenge prioritizes quantity over quality, with high targets encouraging drawing without self-criticism. Both founders transitioned from architecture to art education and credit sketching with transforming their lives and careers. The challenge operates on the principle that momentum and practice, rather than perfection, drive artistic improvement.
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