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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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

June 5, 2011

    I pulled up a sprig of some type of tiny yellow wild clover on a walk the other day and stuck it in a plastic bottle I kept from when someone had bought drinking water on a car trip. I really like this thin, cheap plastic bottle - I wish it were glass or something durable. The shape strikes a nice balance between "cute" (it looks sort of like a little alien) and clean, attractive design, and is just the right amount of water for plenty of practical purposes. 
    Once again, I can see - only after I scan and post the drawing - where I have distorted the shape of the bottle by flattening the right side a bit. Maybe toward the end of the year I might go back and revisit the drawings I've done and correct some things... if I think it would be a good exercise at that point. I'll wait and see...  

1 comment:

  1. You're so good at these delicate nature drawings. I like the magnification of the full water bottle - nice shadows, too.

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