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 8, 2011

     Well, why not? Following the request of my son and sister, I've "fixed" the problem with yesterday's drawing by giving the mushroom a tongue so it is capturing the dragon fly. I toyed with the idea of adding the stem of a larger mushroom of the same variety in the space to the right, for the drama of the implication:  "...and they come larger, too".
     I decided against it for now based on, hmmm, laziness maybe. I should fill in a bit more forest floor duff there in that case...
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  1. AnonymousSeptember 12, 2011 at 6:46 AM

    As I suspected, bug-eating mushrooms have gross scary tongues.

    cp

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  2. EmSeptember 12, 2011 at 11:16 AM

    That's what slugs are trying to look like - the top of a bug eating mushroom tongue. It's a defensive camouflage type of thing...

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