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!

Sunday, April 17, 2011

April 12, 2011

    Probably not the typical camping sketch, but with over a three hour drive down one day and back up the next and scads of things to get done in the two partial days, we were busy busy so on the first day I didn't get to sketching until after dark. With the lantern broken, we were functioning on flash lights and the only objects I could cuddle down in my sleeping bag and still see were these two guns down inside a lock-box. They were along for personal safety... or perhaps more for the feeling of personal safety... for two women in an off-the-beaten-path but not completely isolated (which would feel safer) part of the mountains. Happily, they could be left on safety all night, as the only visitors were a raccoon or opossum and a mouse or other small varmint.
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  1. AnonymousApril 17, 2011 at 6:48 PM

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  2. EmApril 19, 2011 at 12:24 PM

    Oh great... when you remove a comment just because you've changed the post... it doesn't just Remove the thing, it comments that it removes the thing. Why the heck would they make it do that?? It makes it look like I'm touchy about comments or that someone is leaving inappropriate comments. It even leaves up the name of the person who left the "inappropriate" or Irritating comment! Crazy default blog design features...

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    1. AnonymousJuly 17, 2014 at 7:39 PM

      I'd like to use the sketch on the first page of a crime novel I have written. I do need your written permission. Let me know docsavage1956@gmail.com

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  3. AnonymousApril 19, 2011 at 9:27 PM

    Yay, I'm loving being inappropriate! A life goal realized.....

    I hope the full moon was great for the camping!

    cp

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  4. Amy MannApril 19, 2011 at 11:23 PM

    Wow, Emily, I'd better NEVER get on your bad side!

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