one drawing challenge call for entries

Call for Entries: The One Drawing Challenge is Now Open For Submissions!

Send us a drawing. Tell us a story. Win $2,500 and an iPad Pro!

Paul Keskeys Paul Keskeys

We’re excited to announce that the 2019 One Drawing Challenge is officially open for entries! Submit your drawings before the final entry deadline on Friday, August 9th.

Enter the 2019 One Drawing Challenge

In partnership with

one drawing challenge call for entries

Archive DS’s “Sketch Cube”; image via seeleyarc on Instagram

Your challenge is a simple one: Create a single drawing that tells the story behind a complex piece of architecture. In partnership with Savage Software Group, the makers of digital illustration app Procreate, we’re thrilled to announce the following bumper prize package for the two top winners (one student and one non-student):

  • $2,500 prize money
  • iPad Pro (12.9-inch, 256GB)
  • Apple Pencil (2nd Generation)
  • Procreate software package
  • Sakura luxury drawing set

10 commended entries will receive a prize package full of analog and digital drawing tools. Further more the best 100 entries will feature in the first “One Drawing” eBook, to be distributed to thousands of architecture firms via newsletter and social media channels.

one drawing challenge call for entries

A richly detailed section drawing by danvto on Instagram

Your drawing should communicate a new architectural proposal or existing piece of architecture, creatively depicting the experience of those that inhabit it. It can be located anywhere in the world and be at any scale. It can take the form of a plan, section, elevation, perspective or sketch. As long as it portrays part or all of a building or group of buildings, it is eligible.

Remember, your drawing should be square — 2000 pixels by 2000 pixels. If it is not, please add white space at either side or at the top and bottom to make it that way before submitting.

For more information, check out the FAQs, the Jurors Page and the Judging Criteria. We can’t wait to see your submission — good luck from everyone at Architizer!

Enter the 2019 One Drawing Challenge

Top image: Drawing by Aysylu Zaripova, Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering

Paul Keskeys Author: Paul Keskeys
Paul Keskeys is Editor in Chief at Architizer. An architect-trained editor, writer and content creator, Paul graduated from UCL and the University of Edinburgh, gaining an MArch in Architectural Design with distinction. Paul has spoken about the art of architecture and storytelling at many national industry events, including AIANY, NeoCon, KBIS, the Future NOW Symposium, the Young Architect Conference and NYCxDesign. As well as hundreds of editorial publications on Architizer, Paul has also had features published in Architectural Digest, PIN—UP Magazine, Archinect, Aesthetica Magazine and PUBLIC Journal.
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