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!

Monday, January 24, 2011

Jan. 9, 2011

     These were fast sketches of our younger - and much more active - dog, Mindy. Mindy is a Mountain Cur, and although it does seem like she sleeps at times, I failed to find more than a few seconds at a time when she was not moving. The sketch in the lower right corner, for instance, started at her rump (I was learning the head moves most) and at first the shoulders were lower, with the neck outstretched, but by the time I was up to that area she had raised her head to gnaw at her right foreleg. Before I managed more than these few lines in that position she had laid her head down again. Thus, the many abandoned fragments. She's a lovely dog though, and deserves further attempts even if only similar seconds-of-gestural type sketches!
  
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