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 27, 2011

June 26, 2011

    This is a grapple. There are some very interesting boat thingies and old tools here... this one being a boat thingie (the technical name). We have begun to have a thunder storm and there's no light where I was sketching this, so I'll have to finish this one off tomorrow. To be fair, I should finish this one And do another since this really didn't take very long and isn't complicated. We'll see if I feel like being fair...
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  1. Amy MannJune 27, 2011 at 7:03 PM

    I like this boat thingie just as it is - part contour and part shaded.

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  2. EmJune 28, 2011 at 9:21 PM

    Well, thank you... but I have already finished it up - how could I not, having said I would... might... if I felt like being fair!

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