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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and don't forget to check out older posts!

Friday, September 16, 2011

September 14, 2011

    I added three more seed types. You can see the bottom of the beech pod at the top, so counter clockwise from the left but skipping the beech, there is a button bush seed ball broken in half (with two seeds loose), three sections of a broken open marsh hibiscus pod, and a bitter melon seed, drawn somewhat larger than it would be compared to the others. 
     Again, I used only the 4B for the graphite and used touches of black liquid ink pen. The combined seed drawing looks like this now: 
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  1. Amy MannSeptember 16, 2011 at 7:25 PM

    Beautiful! I somehow missed seeing yesterday's. You are amazing, how well you know everything Nature.

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