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...
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Showing posts with label pen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pen. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

May 15, 2011

     Here's an unmarked wind up toy - possibly from about the late 1980's considering the "kid" it was gotten for - done in pen, in contour with some shading.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Feb 23, 2011

    Beaver lodge at Julie Metz wetland park, done in pen.

Feb 22, 2011

    Our younger dog Mindy done in pen. She looks like a hound from the side and a boxer from straight ahead; she's a Mountain Cur. 
She should bite me for this one...

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Feb. 21, 2011

     I used black pen in order to do a very quick drawing of a parrot figurine. Tonight was unusually busy so I needed to do a fast drawing - and a simple, easy, relaxing one - so I turned to a black pen that would encourage me to Stay simple. I think I'll add this pen to my "desert island" drawing pack; it has a nice feel.