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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Do you still have him? His warty detail is amazing! I'm glad you're showing his good side...
ReplyDeleteWe still have him. I think he'd starve if someone didn't feed him. Maybe he'll eventually get better at this, but I think it's going to take a long time, if so. For now he's pretty awful at hunting food - he can get something that touches his foot and he backs and heaves to try to "follow" something that gets under him and he can Feel, but he gets terribly frustrated and sulks... perhaps that's anthropomorphism, but too many misses and he quits trying and hunkers down, turns away etc.
ReplyDeleteHis left knee (the one shown) has no "warts" because he also had lost his skin there so it's all smooth new skin.