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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Thursday, April 21, 2011

April 15, 2011

    A friend of mine says I should not use a straight edge... well, I didn't use one on this one but I had to correct the steeple after it was done once, and the limbs were in over it. What a pain. It's still a little crooked, but I'm not going to sweat it... 
    The view is of a Baptist church across the street  seen over the roof of my house (not visible in the sketch) and through limbs. There was not a cloud in the sky today.
    It would be interesting, as a series, to draw the signature architectural feature with symbolic significance on each of a temple, a mosque, a cathedral and other places of worship.
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  1. AnonymousApril 21, 2011 at 5:48 PM

    There's that great temple with the golden dome south of Burke Lake......

    cp

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