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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and don't forget to check out older posts!

Monday, June 6, 2011

June 2, 2011

    Today I sketched a bag of dried cherries. 

    I tend to pass through phases while I sketch:  Sometimes I'm contented or even in a meditative zone, sometimes I'm frustrated, sometimes I feel like it's going okaaay... but that it's kind of knife-edge as in it could go wrong any moment and I feel like I'm in a balancing act. Times like that can build up tension so I tend to take momentary breaks; put down the pencil, look around, stretch, eat a few dried cherries, adjust my chair and pick up the pencil again. . . What?!? What the heck? The cherries are completely different! How did that happen?! Arrrgh....
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