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. 2, 2011

     Mia, my son's female bearded dragon, has an entirely different attitude toward being stared at; she loves the attention. Named by a prior "owner" because of her "it's all about Me" attitude, Mia's beard turns black the moment she feels the slightest bit annoyed... so I could be pretty sure she was perfectly comfortable with the mutual watching game.
     This sketch allowed me to practice a number of things I find difficult, or simply difficult to make myself do, when sketching... such as allowing physically distinct areas with similar values to merge. I used a standard number two school-house-yellow pencil with these first two sketches.
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