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, December 12, 2011

December 10, 2011

    This is an outline of my son holding his dog on his lap. I did this from a photo (or else it would have been lots of wiggly lines and those parenthetical motion indications they use in cartoons). It is something of an exercise - related to the exercise of blind contour. It wasn't done blind at all, and not nearly as slowly and carefully as those are supposed to be done. It is, then, somewhat of a homunculous type drawing; the distortions probably reflect my perceptions of the importance of the parts. Now I'll go fill it in - if I can!

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