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...
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Sunday, April 3, 2011

March 27, 2011


    Not particularly exciting sketches, but very functional as practice. I sometimes have trouble with cylindrical things, which are harder (for me) to sketch correctly than spherical things. Ovals are likewise more apt to go wrong than eggs. In terms of the elements, I have a harder time drawing simple circles and straight lines. Of course I can use a straight edge (to the horror of one of my artist friends), but it's pretty hard to carry around aids for ovals... and they're not standard ovals, anyway. I just need to get my hand and eye more used to making them. 
    First a batch of free-hand circles, lines and ovals, and then a couple of things using free-hand circles. The words express the making and correcting of circles. They are all non-cuss words that sound like they could be; if you want to, you can say them with enough vehemence and venom so they sound like you're cursing fluently. 
    I'm likely to retry that footed pressed glass jelly jar since it's a pretty thing, though this version is lop-sided. 
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  1. Helen OpieApril 11, 2011 at 7:18 PM

    I prefer its lopsy-wopsyness: it has more life in it than a symmetrical, perfectly aligned shape would have. We all know what it is, and there is the added information about the hand of the maker and also the temperament of the maker: no straight-laced and gloomy person drew that glass!

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