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!


Tuesday, May 31, 2011

May 27, 2011

    For my "sketch" today I worked some more on the grisaille under-painting. Unfortunately, I've left the cable I need (to hook the camera up to the computer) elsewhere and the other two options require some software I can't seem to find on this lame version of my once-upon-a-time (pre-Vundo) computer... so after spending an Insane amount of time looking for the software, I just scanned one corner of the under-painting to post. Yawn... night-night...

2 comments:

  1. Technology is not our friend, lets face it. I love the iris effect.....so graceful!

    As of right now, DC is the hottest place in the US. SO LUCKY!

    cp

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