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!

Click on any of the sketches to enlarge...
and don't forget to check out older posts!

Monday, April 25, 2011

April 21, 2011

     Today was supposed to be a sketch of car keys... which I began yesterday. It may yet be car keys, but since I'm playing catch-up anyway I ran outside to draw the surprise iris growing up in the money plant. I can see I should have provided some darker values higher in the money plant, but it wasn't going to be about the money plant anyway and since I was getting hot in the sun, I fled! 
     I really like these Louisiana style iris because they look like alien flowers. I'm sure I stuck the bulbs in sometime last Fall and immediately forgot - which is great because I was so pleased when I discovered two of these in bloom this morning - which means I successfully and unintentionally set a happy trap for myself. It's a gift side effect of distraction! 
     The first two were white. Another in yellow and white has since bloomed, and I can see more on the way. Whoopie!
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