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!

Monday, October 17, 2011

October 16, 2011

     For one thing, I was behind one day in my sketches, for another, I ended up deciding to put in a bit more (fuzzy) background... so I figured I would just count this drawing as two days' worth. Usually though, when I do that I put up the first day's drawing instalment then the next day I put up the finished drawing. Well, I'm not done yet but this is a bit more than the first day so I cut out background and am posting just the little frog now, and hopefully will post the background too - the finished drawing - before the night is out.
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