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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Friday, September 30, 2011

September 30, 2011

     This demands a little explanation! I showed my son a photo where I practically laid on my stomach to take some mushrooms from a low perspective. The tree trunks in the background made an emphatic, dramatic contrast. I commented it was an example of a photo where it was best it be a photo - it would not make a good drawing. He said "Well, if you reversed it so there were big mushrooms in the background and tiny trees in the front it might be interesting."
     That was the original intent of the three mushrooms I drew on September 27, but the idea of filling in between them with more distant, fuzzier mushrooms wasn't quite going the right way. My son wanted me to try it in more of a landscape format. 
     This is somewhat of a story board type trial of the big-mushroom-tiny-trees landscape. It's okay... but not quite up to the imagined concept. For one thing, it needs at least one more out-of-scale thing... and it kind of begs for some creature, doesn't it?
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  1. AnonymousOctober 1, 2011 at 7:40 AM

    perhaps a trail of vengeful dragon flies coming to attack the predatory mushroom from a couple of weeks ago? Mothra type monster dragonflies?

    I like the magical feel and also think of tiny Alice.....

    cp

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  2. Amy MannOctober 1, 2011 at 6:39 PM

    Interesting, Em... you haven't been sampling some of these mushrooms, have you? ;P

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  3. EmOctober 1, 2011 at 11:13 PM

    Just the imagination of a young person... probably also influenced by strange video game worlds...

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