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, August 26, 2011

August 25, 2011

    Because I'm taking a bit of a break, I got one of my sons to scribble something for me to use as a constraint/starter to do a just-for-fun sketch. This is what he came up with... a bit light, but the rules say I have to use the lines. I can ignore any I don't want to use but I have to leave them there (I did go over them to make them more visible). I can turn it any direction I want, so I'm showing it in the orientation I settled on. 
    I made it into the up-close mouth of a dog (or doggish creature). Yes, I know dog teeth aren't really like this, but this is probably the way my poor valiant mail man is imagining they look as he approaches the door...

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