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 20, 2011

     Here's the second attempt with the 8B woodless graphite pencil. It's kind of disappointing since I rather liked the HB woodless I'd used earlier, so I anticipated Really liking the 8B. I was all set to just love the creamy blackness of it, but I didn't at all! I'm not giving up on it yet though... 
      This small metal dog figurine says J.B on the tummy and is super heavy for the size. It's possibly brass, but I'm not certain, and it seems to have a different metal coating that is worn off in spots. It's a caricature of a bulldog with humongous ears. 
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  1. Amy MannJuly 21, 2011 at 3:55 PM

    I think loving the 8B (or 9B) woodless graphite probably depends on the paper you draw on. The guy in the store told me that hot press watercolor paper is great for them. Probably the smoother the better.

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