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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Sunday, December 18, 2011

December 14, 2011

    What I decided to do was to use the outline for one object as if it were a "scribble drawing" challenge. Instead of drawing something out of a scribble, I would draw something within the outline, turning it in any direction. 
    After turning the outline onto the side, I chose to draw an imaginary animal since that gives complete freedom to invent. I think this creature looks like a type of dragon and like some of the images of very tiny animals blown up very large - fleas, mites and so on.  

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  1. These are dragon mites that will attack the dragonlets unless you do somethng preventative quickly! They are very fierce!

    cp

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