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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Monday, October 24, 2011

October 20, 2011

     I was joking about drawing a bar of soap earlier... I thought "well, why not?" so here it is. I considered the wrapped bar... too plain. I ripped it open and held the bar... creamy and nice, but still too plain. I shoved it back into the wrapper, which was all wrinkled up by now, and just like with Goldilocks, the in-between stage was Just Right.

1 comment:

  1. I'm seeing a couple of beautifully matted/framed drawings in a bathroom....soap and hand cleaner! Perhaps companioned by ones of a pile of towels (nice texture) and toilet paper rolls (those circles you like so much?)! Bath sponges and luffas?

    Hmm, bathroom better have lots of wall space!

    cp

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