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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Friday, June 17, 2011

June 16, 2011

    I was too tired to work on the camellias, and in fact I was so tired I watched some TV in the evening... which I very rarely do... so I just plucked a bit off the viburnum outside (which I had been admiring earlier for the wonderful red berries forming) and during commercials I drew a new start off of the bit of viburnum laying on my sketch pad.

1 comment:

  1. even though you say this is a "start", I like the way the berries make this look three dimensional - they really lift off the page.

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