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...
and don't forget to check out older posts!

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Jan 1, 2011

     Although I started my sketch a day on January first with this sketch of Hannah, at first I emailed these to a few friends, then put some on Paintbucket, then bowed to friendly pressure (ahem... Amy) and started this blog. Sketches will have to be added at the rate of several a day until I catch up to the real date...
    At fifteen years old, Hannah is a supremely obliging model. She found my sitting in front of her on the floor staring at her to be disconcerting so she's not asleep, but she's resigned and waiting for me to be done with my crazy, mysterious human activity.
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  1. Amy MannJanuary 22, 2011 at 9:53 PM

    What a nice doggy! I love the way you've used different marks and textures to get all of her different textures, like the fur vs. the claws. And you really caught her patient tolerance.

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  2. Helen OpieJanuary 23, 2011 at 9:50 AM

    You have caught the doggy character of this wonderfully patient and resigned dog! A truly sensitive drawing!

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