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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and don't forget to check out older posts!

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Jan. 21, 2011

     Having discovered, doing the blind contour the day before, that a son on the computer is a very still and stable model for drawing, I sketched my younger son. Scott has his right arm out so his hand can rest on the mouse. The lighting was coming from the computer screen (variably), from the window (light on his forehead mainly) and some from the lamp that put light on my pad.
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  1. Amy MannJanuary 27, 2011 at 9:15 PM

    I really like your pencil work - there is so much variety in the tones and marks. Very nice.

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