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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Monday, July 25, 2011

July 24, 2011

     Here's a simple drawing of a single cicada wing. I tried out three different white paints to see which would work best as a highlight on graphite:  watercolor and two white acrylics. As a result, the highlights are rather uneven, but as a test it was useful...
     This wing is transparent with black (and in a few places grasshopper green) ribs. We were photographing two cicadas emerging from their cases tonight and their bodies were the most beautiful iridescent coppers, ambers and sea greens imaginable. The translucent portion of their wings were iridescent sea green. If I can find them tomorrow I'll know if their wings mature to the colors of this one.
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  1. Amy MannJuly 25, 2011 at 10:26 PM

    beautiful! You could use this in an illustration of a fairy...

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