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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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Jan. 19, 2011

    The 19th was Cezanne's birthday so I pulled up one of his paintings on a laptop and sat in front of it and began copying in pencil. Initially I was just going to block in general shapes and values, but I neglected to note that the proportions of the pad and screen image were different. I know, how obvious... so obviously when I came in from different sides and corners I wasn't going to meet in the middle... there's a whole lotta fudgin' going on! Nevertheless, with proper fudging the sketch began looking pretty good, then I decided I'd been neglecting the darker values and started putting some of those in and for that reason - and others - the sketch started going badly down-hill... having already demonstrated I didn't know when to quit...
I quit!
   
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  1. Amy MannJanuary 27, 2011 at 9:10 PM

    I like! (wish I hadn't missed his birthday! I love Cezanne.)

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