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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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Feb. 15th, 2011

    I'm finally caught up to posting one sketch a day on the day I do it... hopefully I can keep that up now although some days that will mean a very quick sketch just to maintain the momentum. I have gotten in the habit of procrastinating and doing my sketch late at night before going to bed, which means I'm tired, rushed, and unappreciative of all the "fun" I'm having (!) so I'm going to try to get a sketch done during the day somehow. 
    Of course, time is the problem, but time is almost always the problem with most endeavors, and the Sketch A Day effort is at least partially intended to elevate the importance of sketching and boost the probability of actually doing it. So far, it has accomplished that goal for me; I am, at least, sketching. 
    Obviously I feel I need to work on the mechanics of my timing and finding a place to work would help; these bulbs might look better is Someone hadn't moved them between when I started, dashed off to aid with something trivial, returned and Arrgh! the shadows and overlapping points were all different! Fudge, fudge... Maybe some of the lessons I'll be learning in drawing will be about fudging when necessary?
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  1. Amy MannFebruary 15, 2011 at 2:28 PM

    Since you don't have a dedicated studio space, you've got to make clear to your family when something is a set-up and can't be touched. Have a STILL LIFE - DO NOT TOUCH! sign at hand to put by the set-up if you have to leave it.

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