The purpose of a sketch a day is just to do it - sketch! It doesn't matter if it is an involved sketch or if it is a simple contour or gesture drawing. There are no rules except to sketch each day.

Life parameters can dictate the time investment, but a sketch a day commitment is designed to elevate the personal priority of sketching ... to enforce sketching. Making it into a "resolution" validates the activity (invests it with a bit of a challenge even!) and defends against competing demands. The sketch a day is designed for practice - to reinforce basic skills, and to provide daily contemplation on the issues of two dimensional representation.

Several of us are doing a sketch a day, and I would enjoy hearing from anyone else who decides to join in. We share our efforts, support each other, keep each other honest and... hopefully we'll have some fun doing this!

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Monday, February 21, 2011

Feb. 20th, 2011

    Here is one sweet gum seed pod (commonly called "monkey balls" because they hang by their "tails"), one cone of an unknown evergreen type and one "Miss Hickory" nut. Frankly, I added the nut just to place a third thing in the sketch... it was less interesting visually and I spent less effort on it so perhaps I should/could have left it out. 

1 comment:

  1. I love those sycamore pods! Your drawing of it is great, it feels so round and prickly. I always think it looks like baby birds with their beaks open.

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