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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and don't forget to check out older posts!
Her dress makes me wonder if they still have the wonderful dress exhibit at the Museum of American Indians.....I clearly see continents....
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Wonderful, amazing, very cool! Now I see you clearly as a children's book writer and illustrator! Do you have a papoose cradle in your house? Or did you find a picture of one online?
ReplyDeleteWe have an antique cradle that is used as a table, and I was looking online for a cradle or cradles to view since I envisioned something more like a little old woman by an early American cradle, but when an image search for cradle pulled up an Apache cradle I switched to thinking about using an Apache woman and Apache cradle. I really hesitated to do so since the idea struck me as somewhat trite, but the fact that the Apache cradle has laces and the association with Indian dream catchers and other aspects prompted me to go with it as the cradle of life, holding the web of life... I did draw some of the pose from an older woman on one internet cradle image, along with most of the cradle, but I also found several other Apache cradle images and had to dub in hands, a different face (so she wasn't looking at the "camera"), etc. I was going to cite the sites, but by then the images were so different I decided it'd be a stretch... unuseful and unnecessary.
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