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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Saturday, September 10, 2011

September 7, 2011

    Argh... well, a screw up - but I spent my sketch time on it, so posted it will be! I started off with a dragonfly I liked fine, done from a photo from the nearby park, then decided to have it sitting on a mushroom from a photo from another park - not entirely unlikely although mushrooms aren't quite the sunshine plant dragonflies usually choose. 
    The problem came in when I failed to Think about how dragonflies land on things. It seems pretty obvious now, but while it had it's feet on opposite sides of the original twig, it wouldn't do that on a thick round object like a mushroom! It wouldn't land on the side without facing the surface, either. Darn. I started to put a smaller mushroom in front, which would have stunk, before I decided to quit for tonight and reconsider whether I can fix it, should abandon it, or whatever... My son says to turn the small mushroom erasure mark into a mouth and have the mushroom about to gulp the dragonfly. Considering the hostility I feel toward the drawing at the moment it's tempting!
   
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  1. AnonymousSeptember 10, 2011 at 8:03 AM

    I like the idea of a vicious mushroom attacking the unsuspecting dragonfly....or the Japanese monster movie dragon fly fighting back?

    cp

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  2. Amy MannSeptember 10, 2011 at 8:22 PM

    So, who says the drawings have to be realistic? The dragonfly looks like he's swooping past the mushroom, not standing on it.

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