Sketch A Day 2011: tomatoes

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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Saturday, July 9, 2011

July 9, 2011

I finished up the cherry tomatoes, worked a bit more on the blending, highlights and shadows on the other tomatoes, and am going to call it a day's sketching. It took up a decent amount of time, consisted of a decent amount of artistic exercise, and could have been simply two color drawings of tomatoes if I'd done them on seperate sheets of paper. That's the rationalization at any rate!
I used Prismacolor colored pencils and one 7B graphite since I had to work the shadows in very closely to the colors, and I have a hard time getting a really sharp point on Prismacolors... although I like everything else about them. I do think they are not 100% consistent in hardness though; for instance, it seems like it is easier to lay highlights onto a well-burnished surface with some very pale creams etc. than with their white, which seems a bit harder.