My Experience Doing The 100 Heads Challenge and How It Nearly Broke Me!!!

A few months ago, as I was working my way through Sari Shryack’s “Not Sorry Art School’s” phenomenal course and particularly the portraits module, I decided to do the 100 heads challenge in order to improve my skill in drawing heads faster. I also wanted to finally force myself to start a challenge, any kind of challenge, as I’ve been thing about it for a while. As much as I love my sketchbook as a safe place to experiment and make mistakes, I find that I tend to not stick with a consistent practice as often as I should. So I thought a challenge would not only compel me to open my sketchbook everyday, but posting my progress on social media would also hold me accountable. Plus as I was doing Not Sorry Art School’s portraits course, I thought there must be a technical almost scientific method to correctly render facial proportions. That led me to research (and by research I mean watching countless YouTube tutorials) the Loomis method, which then inevitably led me to the 100 heads challenge.