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. 4, 2011

     January 4th I found myself in the passenger seat of a truck on the way to go camping near Charlottesville, VA (brrrr!) when I realized we wouldn't get there until after dark. By climbing around over the seat I managed to retrieve my sketch pad but couldn't reach the pencils, so this sketch of the rear view mirror - the only thing not moving - was done with a ball point, bumping and jostling along 29S. 
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