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!
didn't some old Dutch Master do this? Or maybe it was a plate or a mirror instead of a doorknob? Clever anyway......
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Hmmm... I think several did something where they are discernible as a smear in a goblet or something, and M. C. Escher did himself in a ball he was holding... I guess it has a history. I bet some of them Planned it (like a signature or painting themselves into the Annunciation etc.) and some just were painting what they saw and there they were (or a smeary representation of them, at least)! I fall into the latter, less well planned group.
ReplyDeleteI always love the ones that place themselves in a historical/religious scene.....winking, smirking, looking pious. Like that Woody Allen movie about 30 years ago where WA's character appeared in all kinds of 20th century newsreels...Zelig? Must look for it in the DVD rental place.....
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