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, September 13, 2011

September 10, 2011

    I filled in the left side of the creek scene a bit, although not completely. Perhaps I should have done that and erased some of the worked area on the left so there was some white left there too... I simply worked right up to the edge on the right and then allowed the plain paper to weave in and out on the left (partly due to the spiral pad spine), but which I liked better since it echoes the creek shape. 
   I also added a tiny muskrat way at the bottom. I cannot say why I put him right in front of the vertical log when I should have put him off to the left one body width... hind sight. 
    While I was touching up, I also tried having the dragon fly and the mushroom's tongue cast some shadow on the mushroom in the "dangerous mushroom" drawing, but I don't think it added as much as I had thought it might. I also added the bit of forest floor I mentioned thinking it needed. 
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  1. Amy MannSeptember 13, 2011 at 7:01 PM

    Get yourself a nice, lightweight drawing board, tear the sheet out of the spiral book, and tape it to the board. Freedom! I really like this drawing, by the way - the woods, that is. The mushroom and dragon fly... it scares me!

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 14, 2011 at 7:16 PM

    The forest floor is amazing! My fave part!

    cp

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