30 Faces/30 Days - People in Places in Watercolor

🎨 The Challenge: Create a watercolor portrait every day for 30 days, starting Nov. 1, 2026!

🖌 Improve your painting skills, one face at a time, with 30 inspiring video lessons from urban sketcher and professional illustrator Pedro Loureiro.

♾️ 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, paint your muse and share your painting with a global community of fellow participants.

• 30 video watercolor lessons (~30 mins/lesson)
• 30 inspiring reference photos
• 1 extraordinary teacher

Brush up. Dive deep.

Watercolor invites you to loosen up, go with the flow, celebrate color, embrace "happy accidents" and experience the joy of painting.

In this challenge, you'll immerse yourself in this magical medium and grow as a painter, one face - and place - at a time. We'll cover:

• Application techniques (wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, etc.)
• All things color (choosing, mixing, placing, blending, layering, texturing, mapping)
• Letting watercolor shine as the primary medium while using ink and graphite for your underdrawing
• Edge control and variation
• Lifting techniques
• Highlighting
• Composition
• Painting loose to match the looseness of watercolor
• Painting confidently with speed (but not rushing)
• Painting with a limited palette
• Conveying story through artistic choices
• Developing your personal painting style
• Avoiding muddy results
• Identifying shapes in your subject, and using them to capture the interplay between light and dark
• And much more!

Meet Your Teacher

Pedro is an architecture illustrator from Lisbon, Portugal. A lifelong sketcher inspired by comic books, he uses ink and watercolor to tell stories of people, places, and everyday life.

Deeply involved in the Urban Sketchers community since its early days, he teaches workshops worldwide and leads The Wedding Sketchers, a live sketching group.

Pedro believes sketching from life sharpens perception, and that anyone can learn to draw and paint. His work captures fleeting moments—whether at dinner parties, family gatherings, or city streets—turning them into lasting visual memories. (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?

• Assorted Brushes (example)
  
• Drawing Pencils (example)
• Masking Tape (example)
• Technical Pens (example)
• Watercolor Paints (example)
• Watercolor Paper (example)

Is the content all new?

Yes! Pedro created these 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 the video lessons have closed captions/subtitles?

Yes! All video lessons have auto-generated English CC/subtitles that can be auto-translated into various other languages. 

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 upon request within 24 hours of purchase.

Any Questions?

Contact us. We'll reply asap.