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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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

August 4, 2011

    For ease of posting after a long day ("helping" put in a new counter/sink combo for my parents), I'm going to post today's drawing of my elderly dog asleep on the kitchen floor in lieu of more of the catch-up drawings from Woods Hole.
    My old doggie gal used to be much fatter, but has lost quite a bit of weight (for her health) and is now soft and a little like a low pressure water-balloon so that she can sag in on the up-side (creating a waistline) but out on the down-side with a fold slightly over her leg. She's a black dog, but it's so hot we've shaved her over-coat so the woolly under-coat shows, and it's a black brindled cream with a black stripe down the middle! She snores when she sleeps...
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  1. Amy MannAugust 9, 2011 at 10:34 AM

    A nice, sensitive drawing... she's a great model!

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  2. AnonymousAugust 9, 2011 at 5:15 PM

    ah well, lots of us snore and sag a bit in the middle.....dear Hannah.

    This really captures her resting feel.

    cp

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