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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Is Mindy shiny black? She looks that way from the way you handled her chest and front legs. Nice, lively pen work. It looks like you captured what I imagine her personality to be!
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ReplyDeleteI can read Mindy's mind.....she's wondering if pens are good to eat? Or if being drawn is the lead-up to a walk?
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No, Mindy isn't black... the pen is, but really I should have been able to convey her gold color anyway. Her head is too big too... such an amateur mistake! Like I said, she should have bitten me for this one, but I wasn't going to do something else just to put up a sketch for the day!!
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