100 Heads Challenge

100 heads challenge is quite a popular activity among the artists who want to improve certain skills. The idea is to collect an inspiration board of 100 faces or heads and simply draw them, preferably in as short time as possible.
Doing so artists aim for different goals: some focus on similarity studies, others study anatomy, some are trying to better understand how their medium of choice behaves, others use it as a reference for their 3D modeling practice and so on. There are no real rules of how should you exercise your personal 100 head challenge. And there are no rules of how long your challenge should take really. Even though, in order to avoid procrastination and perfectionism, you are encouraged to make is as quick as possible, reality is that it varies a lot. And I mean a lot. There are people who finish it in a week and there are those who works on it for a few years.

I myself decided to do this challenge because in recent years I re-discovered watercolor and was really curious to try it on portraits. I wanted to understand how watercolor medium behaves, how my pigments mix and interact with each other, I was mostly interested in coloring, in watercolor application. So the line-work used as a basis for these portraits is simply just copies from the reference photos that I collected from Pinterest.

First portrait is marked with date 2025 November 7 and the last one with 2026 February 27. So it is 4 months total, I had holiday season in between, also covid-fest and some other fun stuff.