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!

Click on any of the sketches to enlarge...
and don't forget to check out older posts!

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

September 3, 2011

    First I had been running a day behind on my sketches, then I didn't get in early enough (and with enough vim) to post, and then I got on to post last night and just then we lost the inter-net connection! 
    Perhaps it wasn't meant to be... but apparently it's okay today (in every way) so here is a pair of quickly done peppers from the Farmers' Market. 
    Still with a 2B mechanical pencil, these were done with almost no erasing and with a much faster, deliberately coarser shading. I wasn't timing or carefully staying conscious of the no erasures "rule" so it wasn't a rule per se, but this is pretty much as it's first laid down, and laid down rapidly.
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