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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Thursday, July 21, 2011

July 19, 2011

     This plastic Russian robot (or PO6BOT as the box appears to say in Cyrillic) was done with a new woodless graphite, 8B, and I really didn't like using it at all. It was too soft to make a nice sharp line, which would have been appropriate for a hard (such as metal or plastic) object, and the paper/eraser/pencil combination was poor. I couldn't get good erasure... it felt almost as if the eraser were greasy and the shading kept clumping as if the paper were grabbing it unevenly. You can see all of this if you blow the image up. I would think the eraser or the paper was at fault except this is the same eraser I've been using, and while it's a new pad, it is the one I've used for the last four drawings without much problem.
    I decided to switch to a different paper and give the same pencil a try again. I used a 2B mechanical pencil for the drawing and this pencil for the darkest values. I didn't love it, but it was a more appropriate use. Both of these drawings get moved to the stinky fish section when I separate them out nearer the end of the year!
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  1. AnonymousJuly 21, 2011 at 6:27 AM

    Robot doesn't look very satisfied with the pencil, either.....

    cp

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  2. EmJuly 21, 2011 at 1:05 PM

    It's like when your favorite lipstick goes all funky and lumpy... he's got to go out with that face on because there's no time to get another pencil and redo!

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