#OneWeek100People 2026: The Underground City!

Here’s a few of my favorites from day two’s Morning Metro Sketching.

These puffy down-filled jackets are all the rage this year. I had to laugh at the look of the hugely inflated jacket contrasted with her skinny legs in tights.

Très Chic!

It’s fun learning to shape masses with color. I can honestly say I’ve never drawn so many puffer coats.

It’s hard to choose favorites – but I think this one is pretty emblematic of my approach this year. Big blocks of color, drawing done with the reserved white, and working fast so the colors melt inside a shape – but working one block at at time in an orderly manner, so the colors don’t break the shape.

It very much helps that it’s super dry in Montreal this time of year. You need lip-gloss, and moisturizer. The skin on my hands and feet crack every winter. This kind of dryness makes it easy to paint blocks of color without losing your drawing.

Draw with the whites! Draw with the edges of shapes!

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They call the underground mall which surrounds our Metro system the RESO (Réseau d’Échange Souterrain). There’s 20 miles of tunnels under the downtown core. You can get to three different universities. A couple of hospitals. It’s only a quick jaunt out in the cold to all the major museums. And we have a number of very good food-fairs down there – Quebecers do love good food!

So that’s 21 sketches for the day shift, on day two. I was sketching for maybe four or five hours – minus eating, minus travel, (most of my time is spent moving from place to place), so I’d guess these average 10-15 minutes a sketch.

I hope your marathon is going equally briskly! And hey – send me your links guys! I want to see what everyone is drawing this year. It’s probably not puffy jackets :)

~m