Thirty-one characters, one a day for October. They all ended up on a bench together.
I wanted to practice drawing people who weren't me. Strangers, mostly — someone on the metro, a man waiting for his daughter outside a tutoring centre, a woman who looked exactly like my aunt but wasn't.
By week two they started to feel like a group. By week four I was giving them names.
31 illustrations, one group shot, a print of the group shot on my bedroom wall. Exhibited in NIFT's student show.
Put your timelapse MP4 here — it swaps in automatically.
Three short passes — one to figure out the fold, one to make it look like a real object, one to give it a tiny life of its own.
One character per day. No erasing past day three. The bad days had to stay.
Ink + one flat. I gave myself a single accent each week and made it rotate.
Last three days I redrew everyone smaller and sat them in a line. The bench was not planned.