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!

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

August 11, 2011


     These are four quick contour drawings of a tea figurine. It seems (rather oddly, I think - television or story character?) to be a monkey in a pleated skirt and holding a drinking glass. Only the back has the (possibly circus) designs on the base. 
     One thing I like about these little tea figurines is that the glaze runs and fills in crevices so each one is a little different. This one is so odd and slightly "off" that it reminds me of a Chinese (I think) figurine I saw photos of once that illustrated a story about a beautiful girl that turned into an ugly witch as she crossed a river. The figurine was carved so that you saw a beautiful girl on one side and the witch on the other, but they blended into each other as you twisted it around. 
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