30 Faces/30 Days - Pencil (2025)

Regular price $ 59.99 USD

✏️ The Challenge: Draw the human face in pencil every day for 30 days, starting January 1, 2025.

✍️ Improve your drawing skills, one face at a time, with six inspiring teachers and hundreds of fellow participants.

♾️ Get lifetime access with purchase. Go at your own pace. Revisit forever.

👇 How It Works

Each day of the challenge, you get a reference photo featuring an inspiring face and a video lesson on Sktchy. Watch the lesson, draw your muse and share your drawing with a global community of fellow participants.

• 30 video drawing lessons (~60 mins/lesson)
• 30 inspiring reference photos
• Six extraordinary teachers

Explore the Power of the Pencil

It's so simple, and so potent. It's the most accessible of all art supplies with the most possibilities.

You can capture anyone with a pencil.

In this challenge, you'll build up your drawing skills, one face at a time, with the guidance of six extraordinary artists. We'll cover:

• Capturing likeness through accurate proportions, the Loomis method, etc.
• Creating texture through indenting, frottage and other experimental techniques
• Drawing faces with wrinkles and beards
• Drawing subjects at challenging angles
• Facial anatomy
• Hatching and blending
• Line quality and expressive mark making
• Observation skills
• Using focal points, composition, and lighting to create an interesting portrait even in low-contrast reference photos
• Working with graphite powder
• And much more!

Learn from six extraordinary graphite artists from around the world.

1. Bridget Clutten (Sktchy, Instagram)
2. David Tenorio (Sktchy, Instagram)
3. Juan Perednik (Sktchy, Instagram)
4. Margriet Aasman (Sktchy, Instagram)
5. Tiffany S. DaVanzo (Sktchy, Instagram)
6. Zac Rybacki (Sktchy, Instagram)

30-Day Challenge, Lifetime Access

As a participant, you get lifetime access to all challenge content (videos, photos, etc.) on Sktchy, where you can communicate with your teachers and connect with fellow participants from around the world via desktop and any iOS or Android mobile devices.

FAQs

What materials do I need to participate?

The only materials you need are pencil and paper. That said, here are the specific materials the teachers use in their lessons:

Pencil: lead (2B-8B, 2H, HB); mechanical (2B, 4B, HB); colored (various colors)
Paper: white/light and, optionally, toned
Eraser
Optional: charcoal powder; paint brush; shading stick; stencils

Is the content all new?

Yes! The teachers created their video lessons specifically for this edition of the challenge.

What skill level do I need for this challenge?

The challenge is suitable for artists of all skill levels, from beginners on up.

Do I need an iOS-device to participate?

No! We are hosting the challenge on Sktchy, which is available on iOS, Android and web.

Where do I access the challenge?

We publish all content related to the challenge on Sktchy.

Do I get lifetime access to the challenge?

Yes! Your purchase gets you lifetime access to ALL challenge content.

What is your refund policy?

Get a full refund, with no questions asked, within 24 hours of purchase.