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, August 15, 2011

August 8, 9, 2011

     A graphite portrait of an anonymous Official Good Deeder. Some days, it's just hard on your hair being an angel...
     I've been gone again, during which time I did a few very quick drawings which I will also post, but I worked on this portrait for two separate days. The second day was today, but I'm keeping the date count as 8,9 to cut down on confusion or I'd be jumping all over the place!

2 comments:

  1. I think I recognize this Anonymous as the same Anonymous who comments on here quite a bit... am I right? Good job on the smile with teeth, that's very hard to get right!

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  2. Wonderful picture, thank you. I may have to have it for my business cards. Of course none of my good deeds involved either church or boats, so I think there are some issues of scale that mean there are enough halos to go around.......

    cp

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