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!


Friday, July 22, 2011

July 21, 2011

      Again, I'm posting an incomplete drawing:  One that is taking too much time to do in one day. I guess that makes it a sketching a day, doesn't it? 
      This is a branch of coral found on a beach years ago. So far, the coral is all in 2B mechanical pencil and the black blacks are the 8B woodless graphite pencil I've been playing with. 

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